[muglo] Re: Help! Did I fry my HD?
- From: crandall a benson <benson5354@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:30:47 -0400
Barry
They say not to stop the defray process once started. You may have to use
their other program Data Rescue 3 to retrieve your information. But first, you
could contact their tech support to see what they advise.
Crandall
On 2012-03-17, at 10:44 PM, Barry Takayesu wrote:
> 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
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