- I think the safest progression to recovery might be to get information from the creators of Drive Genius. - Maybe using their key combo to properly stop or abort the incessant repeating of the DO-like text. But by turning the computer off during defragmenting and then restarting with an external boot, I might have done as much damage as I can already. The saving grace might be that my internal disk was almost full and had about 1+Gb left in a 160Gb drive. My theory is that only 1% or less of the data might have been in transit when disaster hit... at least that's the optimistic interpretation. One percent sounds small, but over 1Gb is still a lot. But I'm guessing that MBP wouldn't shuffle that much at a crack. - Or as Crandall suggested - maybe use Data Rescue which also came with the apps bundle (also buried in the defunct drive). - I've always liked Disk Warrior since it has been widely touted as safe, reliable and less intrusive as many repair programs have been. - And yes I do (or did) use Time Machine on 1 external drive - but hadn't bothered to plug it in for the last couple weeks. So right now, it's as good as a smoke detector with no battery. - I also have a 2nd external drive that I used Carbon Copy Clone or SuperDuper, but how do I tell which? And once again, I hadn't plugged it in for a couple weeks... Regarding the iPad. My friend is in Ottawa and of course wouldn't be carrying a 'brick' with her, so when she returns to Toronto this coming week, she is going to try the fix. I'll keep you posted. I hope calamity doesn't come in 3s, I'd llken this episode to a shoe drop image since they only come in 2s. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Wayne Dobson <pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You know these things come in threes; you have one more coming. Did you > un-brick that iPad? > For problem #2, the only thing I can suggest is a full erase and clean > install of Snow with a migration of data from Time Machine, which > apparently you don't use. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry