Hello!
Running: MBP Mid-2009 with Snow Leopard and Win7 partitions via BootCamp.
After trying Safe Mode, Disk Utility, and fsck commands, I have encountered an "invalid sibling link" error and now must rebuild with both operating systems on a fresh install. This has impacted only my OSX partition, Win7 is fully accessible and operational (though I will go ahead and rebuild it with WinClone as I redo OSX).
Fortunately I back up important work on an external HD (Seagate drive compatible with both Mac and PC), however there are some files that I foolishly hadn't backed up and would like to recover via Win7.
When I drag the files from my Mac HD onto the drive via Win7, it appears to copy the files just fine. However, it's important that these files be readable/accessible/editable through OSX on my new install just as they were on the old one. Being new to this kind of thing, I don't know if formatting or the "read-only" attributes on some folders will impact this or if these are even going to be usable files.
Essentially, I need to know how to archive OSX files on my external HD through Win7 in a way that will allow me to access them and have them function just as they did on the old OSX installation.
Thank you!
Running: MBP Mid-2009 with Snow Leopard and Win7 partitions via BootCamp.
After trying Safe Mode, Disk Utility, and fsck commands, I have encountered an "invalid sibling link" error and now must rebuild with both operating systems on a fresh install. This has impacted only my OSX partition, Win7 is fully accessible and operational (though I will go ahead and rebuild it with WinClone as I redo OSX).
Fortunately I back up important work on an external HD (Seagate drive compatible with both Mac and PC), however there are some files that I foolishly hadn't backed up and would like to recover via Win7.
When I drag the files from my Mac HD onto the drive via Win7, it appears to copy the files just fine. However, it's important that these files be readable/accessible/editable through OSX on my new install just as they were on the old one. Being new to this kind of thing, I don't know if formatting or the "read-only" attributes on some folders will impact this or if these are even going to be usable files.
Essentially, I need to know how to archive OSX files on my external HD through Win7 in a way that will allow me to access them and have them function just as they did on the old OSX installation.
Thank you!
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