My teacher's early 2007 MacBook kernel panics immediately upon boot, so I decided to pull the drive and connect it via USB to my MBP. It did not mount, so I opened disk utility. I clicked on the (greyed out) Macintosh HD partition and clicked repair disk. It returned the following message to me:
Verify and Repair volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemVolume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
But I can't access the files if it won't mount, correct? If worse comes to worse, I can just tell her she's SOL and she won't be getting her data back.
Verify and Repair volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemVolume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
But I can't access the files if it won't mount, correct? If worse comes to worse, I can just tell her she's SOL and she won't be getting her data back.
