Hey everyone,
for the first time since I have owned my macbook Pro (mid 2010 13" currently running Mavericks) I´m having an issue I cant seem to resolve on my own. About 3 years ago I upgraded the internal 350gb HDD to a 128gb samsung 460 SSD. Up until now it has been running without a problem. When I got home today and opened up the laptop (it was asleep) it showed me the login screen and the dreaded spinning wheel. I left the laptop to do its thing for about 10 minutes. After 10 minutes of waiting I figured I would trz a hard reset. After the chime I got a folder with a blinking question mark in it. I did some googling and found out that it cant find the correct sytem software. Following a bunch of other forum tips I tried booting in OSX recovery and running Disk utility.
Up until there everyything worked as planned (disk utility was able to see the drive). I couldnt however verify or repair the disk. I got both File check exit code is 6 and 8. Following that I got a message (paraphrasing) saying the OS (bootsector) cant be located and I need to reinstall the OS.
The other thing I tried was telling the laptop which drive to boot off of.
Currently I am instaling OSX Mountain Lion on a USB drive and trying to salvage what I can of my data.
My Question(s) being:
Is my SSD fried or did something just get corrupted when I did the hard reset?
Is there any way to fix my issue without a fresh install? (I have a time machine back up...but on a drive I was dumb enough to lend my buddy...who lives 8 hours away)
Is it even possible to salvage data off of my SSD by booting off of a USB drive (since both have an OS on them. One Mavericks and one Mountain Lion)
If I have to do a fresh install it wouldnt be the end of the world. There are a few files I would like to keep, mainly pictures and all of my browser bookmarks.
Sorry for any formatting issues. I´m currentlz posting this from my roommates old and tinz acer netbook, which for some reason also has a german keyboard.
Thanks for any help in advance!
EDIT: I was able to fix my issue. All I had to do was reset the NVRAM. (Command+option+p+r on start up)
for the first time since I have owned my macbook Pro (mid 2010 13" currently running Mavericks) I´m having an issue I cant seem to resolve on my own. About 3 years ago I upgraded the internal 350gb HDD to a 128gb samsung 460 SSD. Up until now it has been running without a problem. When I got home today and opened up the laptop (it was asleep) it showed me the login screen and the dreaded spinning wheel. I left the laptop to do its thing for about 10 minutes. After 10 minutes of waiting I figured I would trz a hard reset. After the chime I got a folder with a blinking question mark in it. I did some googling and found out that it cant find the correct sytem software. Following a bunch of other forum tips I tried booting in OSX recovery and running Disk utility.
Up until there everyything worked as planned (disk utility was able to see the drive). I couldnt however verify or repair the disk. I got both File check exit code is 6 and 8. Following that I got a message (paraphrasing) saying the OS (bootsector) cant be located and I need to reinstall the OS.
The other thing I tried was telling the laptop which drive to boot off of.
Currently I am instaling OSX Mountain Lion on a USB drive and trying to salvage what I can of my data.
My Question(s) being:
Is my SSD fried or did something just get corrupted when I did the hard reset?
Is there any way to fix my issue without a fresh install? (I have a time machine back up...but on a drive I was dumb enough to lend my buddy...who lives 8 hours away)
Is it even possible to salvage data off of my SSD by booting off of a USB drive (since both have an OS on them. One Mavericks and one Mountain Lion)
If I have to do a fresh install it wouldnt be the end of the world. There are a few files I would like to keep, mainly pictures and all of my browser bookmarks.
Sorry for any formatting issues. I´m currentlz posting this from my roommates old and tinz acer netbook, which for some reason also has a german keyboard.
Thanks for any help in advance!
EDIT: I was able to fix my issue. All I had to do was reset the NVRAM. (Command+option+p+r on start up)
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