Thanks. I’m in the beta partition now, copying a few files over to my external hard drive. The problem is here too: Finder just hung for about thirty seconds, while my Mac’s HD made the sound I’ve come to dread. Still, it’s working, thankfully; my main partition won’t even boot.
As to wiping, I’m still not sure what to do. I mean, I know how to format the drive from the OS X on my thumb drive and then install, the question is, what do I do with my partitions? I have two, one Macintosh HD and one OS X Beta Partition. When I did a clean install back in March, I had only the Macintosh HD partition and so didn’t need to worry. I reformatted that partition, but didn’t actually erase it, as people I asked told me that completely erasing the Macintosh HD partition could turn out badly. Are you saying that I should format the entire drive, wiping out both partitions? If I do that, won’t it affect the installation of the OS, or will the installer partition as necessary? On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > For expediency purposes, I wouldn’t worry about re-mapping partitions etc., > you’re just going to wipe the drive and re-partition anyway. Regarding > grabbing those files, if you startup from your thumb drive, then go under > it’s Apple menu to Startup Disk, you should be able to select the 10.9.3 beta > partition as your startup disk. if things are OK in that area of the HD. > Once you’ve started with that version of the OS, you could quickly get the > files you want and place them onto whatever media you want. You could then > go ahead and do the total wipe/re-partition and re-install from your 10.9.3 > thumb drive. It’s best to do it from there since it needs to be done from a > external source in order to completely reformat the drive. > > If you’re unable to startup from your beta partition, then the drive is in > fairly rough shape and you’d either need to use Terminal commands to grab > those files or just give up on them. > > HTH. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> Thanks guys. I have a thumb drive with Mavericsk that I’ve used before, and >> that I keep around now that we have a couple Macs in the house. I’ll use >> that. Before I do though, is there any way to copy off any other files I’d >> like to keep, ones I could recover but that it’d be easier just to have if I >> can get them? I could probably boot into that beta partition and copy, but I >> don’t know if I’ll have the permissions to do that. I’ll also need a way to >> erase the beta partition, if that is indeed the problem. I only tested one >> OS, the 10.9.3 beta a month ago, but I suppose it could have caused the >> problem. Anyway, can I erase that from Disk Utility on the recovery HD, and >> if so, how would I do that and merge its space back to Macintosh HD? >> On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I agree with Chris that it could very likely be a software thing. So, >>> since you have a Time Machine backup that is fairly up-to-date and you say >>> that you have your important files backed up, I’d go for the reformat and >>> reinstall option. If you don’t have an external HD or the cables that I >>> mentioned earlier, there is a neat little utility within the Mavericks >>> Installer that allows you to build a bootable Mavericks installer on a >>> flash drive that is at least 8 GB in size. If you wish to go that way, I >>> can share instructions with you. >>> >>> Later… >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>> On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:00 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>>> You mentioned a 50GB partition for OSX betas. So were you running beta >>>> OSes on this box? If so, it's at least plausible that the beta OSX had >>>> some kind of bug which mangled data structures on the drive and, since it >>>> had access to your non-beta partition, it could have mangled your regular >>>> OSX boot drive as well. In other words, this could still have been a >>>> software issue. >>>> >>>> CB >>>> >>>> On 6/5/14, 9:17 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> So, here's the status of my Mac Mini's hard drive. >>>>> >>>>> * Two repairs from the Recovery HD resulted in an error telling me to >>>>> format ad re-install. >>>>> * I did just that at the end of March, and given that two repairs >>>>> couldn't fix whatever errors have accumulated after three months, it >>>>> seems like the drive itself is having problems. >>>>> * The SMART status of the drive is "verified", not "failing", which seems >>>>> odd given the previous points. >>>>> * The drive is partitioned into two: 450gb for OS X, and 50gb for OS X >>>>> betas. I don't yet know if the beta partition works, but both share a >>>>> drive so I'm not optimistic. >>>>> >>>>> Any ideas? I looked at replacing the drive, but the iFixIt instructions >>>>> are scary and require special tools. The Mini is not under Apple Care >>>>> protection, and my nearest Genius bar is almost three hours away. Am I >>>>> just doomed, or is there a check/repair/miracle program I could run? 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