hello!
my girlfriend's white macbook drive is possibly trashed and of course, she hasn't been backing up. i'm trying to, at the very least, attempt to salvage her many years of photos.
When I boot normally, i get the "you need to restart" screen of death.
I ran Disk Utility from my OS disc and it fixed some things and appears to be OK (according to disk utility)
In Disk Utility, the hard drive shows up but Macintosh HD is greyed out. When I try to reinstall the OS and I have to pick a destination drive, the hard drive doesn't show up. When I try to mount the drive in Disk Utility, it says it can't mount. When I try to mount the drive on a different computer using Target Disk Mode, it won't mount. When I try to choose a startup disk on the OS disk's startup disk menu, the drive doesn't show up.
As a last resort, I've picked up a copy of Diskwarrior and am trying to boot to the DVD. It lets me choose Diskwarrior, but then I get the spinning "loading" image and the "NO" symbol, as in no smoking.
What other options do i have? Thanks for any help. My girlfriend and I appreciate it!
my girlfriend's white macbook drive is possibly trashed and of course, she hasn't been backing up. i'm trying to, at the very least, attempt to salvage her many years of photos.
When I boot normally, i get the "you need to restart" screen of death.
I ran Disk Utility from my OS disc and it fixed some things and appears to be OK (according to disk utility)
In Disk Utility, the hard drive shows up but Macintosh HD is greyed out. When I try to reinstall the OS and I have to pick a destination drive, the hard drive doesn't show up. When I try to mount the drive in Disk Utility, it says it can't mount. When I try to mount the drive on a different computer using Target Disk Mode, it won't mount. When I try to choose a startup disk on the OS disk's startup disk menu, the drive doesn't show up.
As a last resort, I've picked up a copy of Diskwarrior and am trying to boot to the DVD. It lets me choose Diskwarrior, but then I get the spinning "loading" image and the "NO" symbol, as in no smoking.
What other options do i have? Thanks for any help. My girlfriend and I appreciate it!