Hi,
I work at a school and one of our macbooks has decided to stop booting. It gets as far as the gray screen with apple logo then just goes off all together. It happened after I tried doing a regular disk repair, last thing it said was: invalid B-Tree node, back as much data as possible...etc.
I booted it up from an iMac and backed up the data from the admin account but obviously because of permissions it won't let me look at any of the folders in the other user accounts.
Is there away I can authenticate as admin so that I can get into these accounts and back up the kids work?!
Things I've already tried to get into the hdd:
Target disk mode - macbook only appears in disk utility and won't let me image it.
Disk repair via install disk - won't even show the macbook hdd.
I have read a bit about terminal before but haven't really ever used it properly for problem solving, however I would feel comfortable using it if anyone could over clear instructions!
Thanks in advance, J
I work at a school and one of our macbooks has decided to stop booting. It gets as far as the gray screen with apple logo then just goes off all together. It happened after I tried doing a regular disk repair, last thing it said was: invalid B-Tree node, back as much data as possible...etc.
I booted it up from an iMac and backed up the data from the admin account but obviously because of permissions it won't let me look at any of the folders in the other user accounts.
Is there away I can authenticate as admin so that I can get into these accounts and back up the kids work?!
Things I've already tried to get into the hdd:
Target disk mode - macbook only appears in disk utility and won't let me image it.
Disk repair via install disk - won't even show the macbook hdd.
I have read a bit about terminal before but haven't really ever used it properly for problem solving, however I would feel comfortable using it if anyone could over clear instructions!
Thanks in advance, J