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A possible fix for invalid sibling links on a hard drive
Well, $720 in repair bills later, this is another way to recover, even if you have unmounted your hard drive and this hint failed, as it did with me. Using another Mac computer, use the firewire connection to connect the two computers together. In this case, my excellent expert used his laptop running Leopard to connect to my iMac. First, he unplugged the Mac, pushed the start button for five seconds, and while holding it in, plugged in the Mac. This reset the (in PC it's "bios", I don't recall what he called it). Then he connected the two, and rebooted. The firewire symbol came up on my iMac, and he was able to access my hard drive from his laptop and recover all the data from it (we backed it up to a large external drive). Then he did his magic on the operating system, and recovered the drive. My operating system was screwed up in half a dozen places. We think it had something to do with the "hard drive update" that Apple sent out - it would not load correctly when I tried to run it, several times. We think it finally just ate the operating system. Don't know why. |
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