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Re: Crashed partition recovery problem

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On 5/10/15 3:11 PM, Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article <mimvda$fmu$1@dont-email.me>,
>   "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got a MacBook Pro 17" (MacBook Pro 8,3) with a Snow Leopard
>> partition and a Mavericks partition.  The Mavericks system developed a
>> disk problem.  Disk Utility said it couldn't be repaired and to
>> re-install the system off back-up (dling the os).  This was off the
>> Recovery partition.  Unfortunately, I couldn't do that as I got some
>> message saying I had no internet connection.  Don't know why that popped
>> up but I decided to try booting from the Snow Leopard system.  That
>> worked fine but the Mavericks system became unavailable.  I decided to
>> wipe the Mavericks partition (Disk Util erase) and install Snow Leopard
>> on it and upgrade to Mavericks using my backup along the way.
>> Unfortunately, while I could install 10.6.6 off the dvd (this is a
>> special system install for this machine) it would not upgrade to 10.6.8.
>>    The upgrade downloads but will hang on the reboot.  I've tried it
>> twice with the same result.  I even tried simply logging off the newly
>> installed 10.6.6 system.  It just hung.  I'm thinking I'm just going to
>> have to bite the bullet and make a Genius bar appointment but I was
>> wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
>>
>> It occurred to me that I might be able to install 10.10.3 by using the
>> working Snow Leopard 10.6.8 system to access the app store but I believe
>> that's only good for upgrading the system that accessing the app store.
>>    Is that right?
>
> It occurs to me that the partition that held your 10.9 OS has a problem
> but the partition with the 10.6 does not.  If you install anything on
> the 10.9 partition, it may work or it may not.  Or something got
> particularly trashed on 10.9 and it couldn't recover.
>
> To be safe, I'd first check the SMART data on that disk (you have a
> SMART monitoring tool, right?). If it has errors, I'd buy another disk
> and reload everything on the new disk from backups.  If you don't have
> SMART-compatible disk or there are no errors, proceed with caution.
> Anything you do on this partition will likely, at some point, crap out.
> I think that's where you're stuck now.
>
> Buy a new disk and restore from backups.  Or live without the 10.9
> volume.
>
Looks like you nailed it.  Took it down to an Apple store Monday and, 
after running some tests, the genius person said the internal stock 
spinner had a mechanical problem.  Figured I'd set up the replacement 
drive externally and ran into a problem but I'll start a new thread for 
that.

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Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 02:56 -0400
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-10 03:47 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-10 10:49 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-05-11 10:06 +1200
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-05-12 11:45 -0700
      Re: Crashed partition recovery problem Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-12 12:05 -0700
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-05-10 12:11 -0700
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 19:23 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-13 01:01 -0400
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 19:13 -0400

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