WTF! my startup HD is gone!!! Help please

[djrod]

My Mac's dock crashed and I had to power off and on with the back button, but now mi snow leopard HD is gone, I can only boot from bootcamp, if I insert the SL install DVD the SL HD is there, but I can not do anything, nor check or repair it! How can I fix this???

 

[r.j.s]

Have you tried this article? Specifically the part about repairing the disk with fsck.

 

[djrod]

Have you tried this article? Specifically the part about repairing the disk with fsck.

Thx but it doesn't work, disk utility says the disk has no format , and the only thing it can do is to create new partitions

 

[r.j.s]

Thx but it doesn't work, disk utility says the disk has no format , and the only thing it can do is to create new partitions

That doesn't sound good, the disk might be done for ... do you have a backup of the important stuff?

 

[djrod]

That doesn't sound good, the disk might be done for ... do you have a backup of the important stuff?

Restoring form time machine...the HD that is missing is a brand new SSD, applications on SSD, User on the HD, i was wondering how would be restoring from time machine in a configuration like this but I was expecting to never have to do it, but here I am, testing it by myself

 

[r.j.s]

Restoring form time machine...the HD that is missing is a brand new SSD, applications on SSD, User on the HD, i was wondering how would be restoring from time machine in a configuration like this but I was expecting to never have to do it, but here I am, testing it by myself

Let us know how it goes ...

 

[djrod]

Let us know how it goes ...

Everything is up and running again.

Time machine is the best Mac feature ever!

By the way I think my Mac went bad because of bootcamp, windows7 hanged up a lot of times and since then my Mac seemed to be weird, I thought it was my imagination but...

 

[r.j.s]

Time machine is the best Mac feature ever!

Living proof that having a backup is very important.