Hi,
I will try to be clear. I have an Imac with Lion X installed. While I was playing on line my machine froze completely. I had to turn it off at the back of the screen.
From then my became very slow and it would take ages to restart with the grey screen, apple and the spinning wheel.
I went into disk utility and try to verify disk. It told me there were errors on it and could not be fixed and I had to repair it. But it could not be done and was ask to erase disk and reformat it. I did it, verified ok and disk appear ok.
But every time I tried to use my time machine to install my previous workable OS it would not work! Erased disk again, verified ok and try to install fresh Lion OS downloaded via APP. It would download it but would not install it!.
So I took it to a mac repair shop. And told disk was fine but strangely Lion OS 10.7.5( Ithink) would not load but earlier version would!. So took pc home conneced it and of course all my data, photos and so on was gone! So I decided to use my time machine and go back in time update my OS with my data.
It took about an hour but when restarted my mac had not changed!. Worse I think it install a second os on my Mac (120gig used to instal Lion OS seems a lot! No?)
And now worse I can not use time machine BEFORE yesterday! When I go into my Macbook hard drive I can see all files. Photos, music, films and so on but can not access them from a restore point. And some folders have red No permission on them! What is going on?
What have done wrong?
Should I go back the previous state witch was from the shop. And restart again.
Otherwise Mac works fine OS installed but really want my photos back from Iphoto folder.
Sorry for long message but baddly stock!
Thank you.
Dude66
I will try to be clear. I have an Imac with Lion X installed. While I was playing on line my machine froze completely. I had to turn it off at the back of the screen.
From then my became very slow and it would take ages to restart with the grey screen, apple and the spinning wheel.
I went into disk utility and try to verify disk. It told me there were errors on it and could not be fixed and I had to repair it. But it could not be done and was ask to erase disk and reformat it. I did it, verified ok and disk appear ok.
But every time I tried to use my time machine to install my previous workable OS it would not work! Erased disk again, verified ok and try to install fresh Lion OS downloaded via APP. It would download it but would not install it!.
So I took it to a mac repair shop. And told disk was fine but strangely Lion OS 10.7.5( Ithink) would not load but earlier version would!. So took pc home conneced it and of course all my data, photos and so on was gone! So I decided to use my time machine and go back in time update my OS with my data.
It took about an hour but when restarted my mac had not changed!. Worse I think it install a second os on my Mac (120gig used to instal Lion OS seems a lot! No?)
And now worse I can not use time machine BEFORE yesterday! When I go into my Macbook hard drive I can see all files. Photos, music, films and so on but can not access them from a restore point. And some folders have red No permission on them! What is going on?
What have done wrong?
Should I go back the previous state witch was from the shop. And restart again.
Otherwise Mac works fine OS installed but really want my photos back from Iphoto folder.
Sorry for long message but baddly stock!
Thank you.
Dude66