I have been struck by a small disaster!
I was watching a video in full screen and as it was over nothing happened - usualy it would end full screen and return to my apps, but I just got the spinning beach ball. After a minute of beach ball I got worried, so I tried cmd + tab to switch to another app, but nothing happend. I left it alone for 5 minutes or so, but still just black screen and beach ball...
So I held down the power button and waited for the laptop to power off, waited a short while and hit the power button; got the chime, got the apple, got the loading spinning circle, ..., ..., ..., ..., black screen and then the chime again and now this black rectangle telling me I needed to power off the computer and start it again. So I did - chime, black box of text; and so on 3 times.
I took out the harddrive (an OCZ Vertex 250 gb ssd), and put in an old harddisk I had lying around, installed OS X, ran disk tool that gave me an error. I don't know exactly what it would say in English since I use a Danish version of OS X, but it was something like that the disk could not be mounted due to an error in the journaling.
Now I put in my Drive Genius 2.1 DVD and did some repairing and rebuilt it, but it still will not mount - Drive Genius said "Operation not permitted - please verify the file system it may need to be repaired. (0xC001)".
I don't know how I verify or repair the file system...
And I really need to get to the files on that disk!
I'm really really hoping some genius in here knows what I can do to get to the files, because it my entire photo album, music library and all my emails... I deleted my old back-up just before watching that video, because I meant to do a new one but got side tracked...
I was watching a video in full screen and as it was over nothing happened - usualy it would end full screen and return to my apps, but I just got the spinning beach ball. After a minute of beach ball I got worried, so I tried cmd + tab to switch to another app, but nothing happend. I left it alone for 5 minutes or so, but still just black screen and beach ball...
So I held down the power button and waited for the laptop to power off, waited a short while and hit the power button; got the chime, got the apple, got the loading spinning circle, ..., ..., ..., ..., black screen and then the chime again and now this black rectangle telling me I needed to power off the computer and start it again. So I did - chime, black box of text; and so on 3 times.
I took out the harddrive (an OCZ Vertex 250 gb ssd), and put in an old harddisk I had lying around, installed OS X, ran disk tool that gave me an error. I don't know exactly what it would say in English since I use a Danish version of OS X, but it was something like that the disk could not be mounted due to an error in the journaling.
Now I put in my Drive Genius 2.1 DVD and did some repairing and rebuilt it, but it still will not mount - Drive Genius said "Operation not permitted - please verify the file system it may need to be repaired. (0xC001)".
I don't know how I verify or repair the file system...
And I really need to get to the files on that disk!
I'm really really hoping some genius in here knows what I can do to get to the files, because it my entire photo album, music library and all my emails... I deleted my old back-up just before watching that video, because I meant to do a new one but got side tracked...