Thanks guys. I have a TM backup from January with all my music and movies, and I copied essential files this morning before I ran the fatal repair. Aside from a few non-important audio projects, I should be okay, data-wise.
The thing is, I did a reformat/install in April, and had no problems then. How will erasing again reveal hardware issues? Is there any other sort of check I should run before going through the bother of a re-install, or should I just get a new drive? Fortunately this is a Mini, so I can drop in a fresh hard drive if it comes to that. On Jun 5, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey alex, I had that same issue many times. > In short, you're screwed. Unless you have an external HD and a way of > hardwiring it up and accessing your data, you're going to have to go from > scratch. > > Matt Dierckens > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com > 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 > > > > > On Jun 5, 2014, at 2:03 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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