roawr Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Dear InsanelyMac, until I was stupid enough to do an 10.6.8. v1.1 update and reinstall some .kext my Hackintosh worked like a charm for the last four years. I set it up with Kakewalk back then and never had any trouble, see the components in the list below. But right now it fails to boot and I don't have a clue how do get it running again, because I didn't had a look into the whole game for years. Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L F11b Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600Sparkle GeForce 9800GT 512MB4GB Kingston HyperX DIMM DDR2-10661TB Hitachi HDD ASUS WL-138gv2 Here's where the boot process stops; I think the reason is a wrong FakeSMC.kext I reinstalled: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::pushCPU_CSTData - _CST evaluation faileACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::registerLPCDriver - failed to locate SMC driver ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::pushCPU_CSTData - _CST evaluation failed ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::registerLPCDriver - WARNING - LPC device initialization failed: C-state power management not initialize systemShutdown false Being in this kinda dumb situation right now, I got two questions: 1. Is there any way to fix this, maybe by exchanging the aforementioned FakeSMC.kext with the right one? 2. If not, is there any way to access the HDD (with a bootloader or cd) to copy my personal data from the boot partition to an external hdd? As you may see in the last question: I'm not hesitating to do a fresh install, but I need a lot of the date on that drive before I can do that. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 2. There are few options available. If you have Windows installed on the PC, install an official HFS+ driver from Boot Camp and then you would be able to read all the data from the disk If you have Windows installed on the PC, install a 3d party applications to read HFS+, such as Transmac, MacDrive Install a virtual OS X on a Windows PC and use it to copy files Boot from OS X install dvd and copy all the info with Terminal to a spare disk (be it FAT/exFAT or HFS+ - NTFS is not supported) Some Linux distros can read HFS+, so you could boot from a Live CD and copy the info to a spare disk Use a spare disk to install OS X to, then use the current drive as a source to import user date from (OS X during post installation setup, offers you to import information, application, settings from an existing OS X installation (be it Mac or HDD with OS X installed)). Be sure to import only data - not settings or applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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