I've got a 2008 MacbookPro (first unibody design) with OS-X Mavericks.
Today, it appears to be dying. When I started it today, I got the Apple logo and the little swirling circle thing. It does not get past that. All I can do is hold the power button to switch it off/back on again.
I then held the ALT key and tried booting up Windows via Bootcamp. A similar result, waited for ages and it then went back to the bookcamp options screen.
From this screen I took the 'Recovery 10.9' option which, after a long wait, eventually gives me four options:
1) Recover from Time Machine.....not an option for me, I don't have it
2) Re-install OS-X (fails as 'unable to connect to internet', even tho option 3 works)
3) Get help online (I can connect to Apple's support page, but it doesn't really help)
4) Disk Utility (this works)
To cut a long story short, it appears that I have no disk space left on the OSX partition at all. No idea why that happened today when last night was fine, but that appears to be the case.
Using the disk utility, I can't mount the OSX disk (it fails), I can't repair it, I don't seem to be able to do anything. What I'd like to do is something like....
- Try and at least get my family photos and some work stuff off the machine somehow
- Potentially delete the windows partition, to free up some space. I don't mind losing that stuff if it gives me my machine back. Disk Utility doesn't allow me to delete it.
- Find a way to get over the internet connection error, which just seems odd, so I can reinstall OS-X
Does anyone have any advice....I'm feeling rather desperate at the moment, and also rather stupid for not buying the TimeCapsule a few months ago. That £250 seems rather a small price to pay compared to losing the last 10 years of pics of my son growing up....
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I've just noticed that if I select Bootcamp in the Disk Utility, but leave the Format as 'Windows NT File System', I can't erase it, but if I change that to either 'MS-DOS (FAT)' or 'ExFAT' the Erase button is enabled.
Should I try one of these options to create some space, if so, which one?
Thanks in advance
Today, it appears to be dying. When I started it today, I got the Apple logo and the little swirling circle thing. It does not get past that. All I can do is hold the power button to switch it off/back on again.
I then held the ALT key and tried booting up Windows via Bootcamp. A similar result, waited for ages and it then went back to the bookcamp options screen.
From this screen I took the 'Recovery 10.9' option which, after a long wait, eventually gives me four options:
1) Recover from Time Machine.....not an option for me, I don't have it
2) Re-install OS-X (fails as 'unable to connect to internet', even tho option 3 works)
3) Get help online (I can connect to Apple's support page, but it doesn't really help)
4) Disk Utility (this works)
To cut a long story short, it appears that I have no disk space left on the OSX partition at all. No idea why that happened today when last night was fine, but that appears to be the case.
Using the disk utility, I can't mount the OSX disk (it fails), I can't repair it, I don't seem to be able to do anything. What I'd like to do is something like....
- Try and at least get my family photos and some work stuff off the machine somehow
- Potentially delete the windows partition, to free up some space. I don't mind losing that stuff if it gives me my machine back. Disk Utility doesn't allow me to delete it.
- Find a way to get over the internet connection error, which just seems odd, so I can reinstall OS-X
Does anyone have any advice....I'm feeling rather desperate at the moment, and also rather stupid for not buying the TimeCapsule a few months ago. That £250 seems rather a small price to pay compared to losing the last 10 years of pics of my son growing up....
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I've just noticed that if I select Bootcamp in the Disk Utility, but leave the Format as 'Windows NT File System', I can't erase it, but if I change that to either 'MS-DOS (FAT)' or 'ExFAT' the Erase button is enabled.
Should I try one of these options to create some space, if so, which one?
Thanks in advance