Hi, I've had this happen before and it's rather frustrating. The only good thing is that it happened to other people, not me, so I didn't have the same level of stress. The data is normally still on your Mini, it's just unable to boo up properly. The best thing to do is have an external HD with MacOS installed on it to use as your OS drive. Connect it to your Mini, start up the Mini using the external HD, then copy over all your important files onto this drive. If you don't have an external, this can be done using Firewire or Thunderbolt cables where your MacBook is the controller and the Mini is put in Target mode. I can explain that further if you wish to go there, otherwise, I'll leave it for now. In either case, there are major problems, software-wise, with the drive and the best thing to do is a re-format/re-install. As I mentioned in my earlier post, it is entirely possible that there is a physical problem with the drive that is causing this and you'll be able to determine if this is the case when you perform the erasing of the Mini's HD.
Sorry, I didn't go into huge detail here, but I can give you more concrete instructions if you need them. Good luck. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:03 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Thanks Tim, but things got worse. :) I ran the repair from the Recovery HD, > and it said the disk could not be repaired. It now tells me to reformat and > reinstall the OS, but as I said, I did just that a couple months back. Worse > still, my Mac no longer boots! I have a Macbook for my business which I'm > using now, and I have a backup of my important files, but still, my Mini is > my main computer. Any other suggestions you or anyone else has would be great. > On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:35 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Answers below in your text. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I just ran a disk verification. An article I found said to highlight both >>> my main drive and the boot partition, so I did. After a little while, I got >>> this error: >>> Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your >>> computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the >>> Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility. >>> >>> First, do i need to worry about this? >> >> * Yes. If you leave it too long, you may lose data. >> >>> Second, if I do, will the recovery process it wants me to run erase any >>> data? >> >> * No, it shouldn't. What you need to run in Disk Utility on is the Repair >> Disk option. This needs to be done from the Recovery Partition because this >> operation can't be performed on a running system. Normally, if you still >> have "normal" operation, Disk Utility will be able to fix the problem >> easily. If your drive was not starting up, then Disk Utility sometimes is >> unable to make the necessary repairs. >> >>> Third, is this indicative of serious problems, given that I ran a clean >>> install on this machine only a couple months ago? >> >> * It's telling you that something in the directory structure or other >> allocations is corrupt. Not uncommon but if it persists, then there could >> be physical problems with the drive. >> >> HTH. >> >> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex Hall >>> mehg...@icloud.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
