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Total mac meltdown..

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Niteace

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Jun 26, 2008
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Hey all,

If anyone can help with this I would really appreciate it!
My Macbook pro (mid 2010) has just basically melted down.

I had windsows 7 installed under bootcamp. Windows installed a new update, restarted. Instead of booting to osx like it normally does, it had an unusual symbol instead of the grey apple logo. It was like a do not enter sign and wouldnt boot up. So i turned it off, booted to windows, and in my computer it showed the macintosh hd but when i clicked it, it showed it as completely empty. I restated it again and now it doesnt boot at all, into either operating system. Just a grey blank screen, windows recovery comes up, displays a message saying it cannot repair, restarts and is stuck in that loop.
I tired inserting the mac install disk to try to repair disk permissions, partition table etc but the drive just spits out the cd.
Also its out of warranty 2 months :(

So where do i go from here?? any ideas?
Can i boot from a usb drive maybe to recover my data?
 
I'm afraid not. Nearest apple store is nearly 4 hours drive away. I'll prob have to bring it to local pc repair. Was hoping to find a cheaper solution tho.
 
I assume this means you made no Time Machine/CCC/Super Duper backups?

I've never heard of a Bootcamp install blanking the OSX drive. Is it possible you accidentally formatted your OSX drive during the Windows 7 installation process when it asks you to choose the drive to format?

Honestly...you're looking at a total loss of your OS X installation. You're going to have to reinstall OS X onto the appropriate drive. Your bootcamp installation will continue to work, so you don't have to worry about that part...but OS X is gone.

Hopefully you have a Time Machine backup or something.
 
That sounds like a hard drive failure. Can you try booting from an external drive?
 
Thanks for your reply.
I swore after the last time I lost a hard drive I would maintain backups!!
So.. I do have a time machine backup...however, nothing in life is simple.
Last week I got a message saying time machine would like to do a complete backup because it was concerned about the integrity of the backup. Unfortunately I didn't do that yet. So I have a backup there, but I don't know if it will work or not. Compounding the problem is that the cd drive is refusing to work :( I was clinging on to hope of trying to sort it by USB?
 
One clarifying question--can you boot it in Windows, or is that now gone also?

If you can boot in Windows, I don't know. If you can't boot in windows, then I think your hard drive has failed catastrophically.
 
adrian1480 said:
I've never heard of a Bootcamp install blanking the OSX drive. Is it possible you accidentally formatted your OSX drive during the Windows 7 installation process when it asks you to choose the drive to format?

Honestly...you're looking at a total loss of your OS X installation. You're going to have to reinstall OS X onto the appropriate drive. Your bootcamp installation will continue to work, so you don't have to worry about that part...but OS X is gone.
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Just in response to your other comment there, it's not a new windows installation. Windows 7 has been working fine for a few months now. So no chance of accidentally deleting partition or anything. Also, neither operating system will boot now. Windows tries to repair, fails and restarts.
 
Naimfan said:
If you can boot in Windows, I don't know. If you can't boot in windows, then I think your hard drive has failed catastrophically.
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Oh that doesn't sound great. I'm installing osx onto external drive, gonna try boot from that, I'll let ye know how that goes.
 
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