[muglo] Help! Did I fry my HD?
- From: Barry Takayesu <barryt99@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:44:58 -0400
Dang!
I know that I don't need to defragment my MBP, but the program Drive Genius
3 came in a bundle of 10 apps that I thought, what harm could it do?
Besides, it might be helpful...
As the program started, my screen did a pictoral depiction of my full
disk..yes, full. Then it changed to text mode - much like the DOS screens
of old, but with black background and white lettering (maybe Terminal
mode?). Oh, oh. I don't like that term 'Terminal'. It chugged away, and
much later, I realized that it was repeating several (maybe 4 or 5) lines
of text - over and over and over. At that point I did recall seeing a
couple instructional shortcuts prior to executing the Drive Genius program.
One key combination was to stop the program and the other was to abort. Now
I don't remember either of those commands. Anyone know them?
My last backup was about 2 weeks ago, but who would have thought I did so
much since then Stuff that I really want back? I shoulda, shoulda,
shoulda...
I'm writing from the same MBP, but booted up with an alternate drive.
Booting into Safe mode didn't get me anywhere. My last upgrade for Disk
Warrior was long ago. And yes I found the MBP drive by using Disk
Utility (although it doesn't show on my desktop).
Running Disk Utility didn't go anywhere either. Always upon startup, I get
the same black and white DOS like text lines repeating again.
I'm on Snow Leopard, but a cursory search didn't come up with the disk.
They should have made them big, fluorescent and bulky.
Anyone have a solution that doesn't involve wrists and sharp objects?
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Barry Takayesu Prestige Print & Graphics
(519) 631-8800 10592 Wellington Rd
barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx St.Thomas, ON N5P 3T1
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