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Musashi3052

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Oct 24, 2012
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I have an early 2015 MacBook running Mojave. Tonight I was using the net when suddenly the mac pretty much froze. The mouse would move but clicking did nothing and no keyboard commands worked. This happened a few weeks ago in the same manner, so once it rebooted I ran first aid and got the error message "found physical extent corruption but repairs are disabled.". So I restarted in recovery mode, ran first aid, and got the same error.

Will wiping the drive and restoring from a time machine backup fix things, or is the drive itself going and I'll need to buy a new laptop? Or is there another solution I'm not aware of?
 
I have an early 2015 MacBook running Mojave. Tonight I was using the net when suddenly the mac pretty much froze. The mouse would move but clicking did nothing and no keyboard commands worked. This happened a few weeks ago in the same manner, so once it rebooted I ran first aid and got the error message "found physical extent corruption but repairs are disabled.". So I restarted in recovery mode, ran first aid, and got the same error.

Will wiping the drive and restoring from a time machine backup fix things, or is the drive itself going and I'll need to buy a new laptop? Or is there another solution I'm not aware of?
Erasing and recreating the volume, then restoring from backup, may very well fix this particular problem.
 
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