Hello. This is my first post I will be very grateful if someone can help me with this.
Well, the situation is this: My significant other (sigh) being a person who takes rushed actions without thinking 🙁 broke her Macbook Air (running Lion) in which she had all our family photos (years) without backup 😕 (not really sure what she did but it seems she pushed the turn on/off button while having the iPhotos open -or at least that is what she says)
The mac didn't boot (just freezed at the apple logo)
So after talking with Apple Service, and trying without success safe mode boot, what I did was buying a new external 500GB disk and using internet to do a reinstall on there. So now -provided I have the disk connected- have a brand new Lion running Macbook Air.
The objective was to access the original harddisk of the mac and try to copy the files as much as I can.
The thing is that the Mac does not recognize the harddisk. (it does not appear in finder and when I use disk utility I can see it is there but it is greyed and it reads ""Mount Point: Not mounted, Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"
Before I tried to verify and restored the disk but it said it could not be repaired with messages such as
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed."
So, could anyone give me some ray of hope of how can I access at least some parts of her harddisk so as to recover our precious mementos??😳
Thanks a lot for any help
Well, the situation is this: My significant other (sigh) being a person who takes rushed actions without thinking 🙁 broke her Macbook Air (running Lion) in which she had all our family photos (years) without backup 😕 (not really sure what she did but it seems she pushed the turn on/off button while having the iPhotos open -or at least that is what she says)
The mac didn't boot (just freezed at the apple logo)
So after talking with Apple Service, and trying without success safe mode boot, what I did was buying a new external 500GB disk and using internet to do a reinstall on there. So now -provided I have the disk connected- have a brand new Lion running Macbook Air.
The objective was to access the original harddisk of the mac and try to copy the files as much as I can.
The thing is that the Mac does not recognize the harddisk. (it does not appear in finder and when I use disk utility I can see it is there but it is greyed and it reads ""Mount Point: Not mounted, Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"
Before I tried to verify and restored the disk but it said it could not be repaired with messages such as
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed."
So, could anyone give me some ray of hope of how can I access at least some parts of her harddisk so as to recover our precious mementos??😳
Thanks a lot for any help