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Mavericks not booting after improper shutdown


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Hi all!

My Hackintosh (GA-P55-UD5 - Non UEFI) has been working as a dream for many months.T

Today electricity was disconnected for a short time from my house and computer was not properly shut down.

After this I tried to boot normally but Chameleon is not even starting, all I get is the beginning of ascii animation with loading (the rotating | ) then it gets stuck and I cannot do anything.

I have a sata - USB adapter and I would like to ask a friend to bring his Mac over and try a scandisk with Disk Utility on my not booting HDD.

Am I doing the right thing?

I have many Video in iMovie that I care about and that is why I wanted to double check with experts before doing anything silly.

Thanks for your time and patience, your help is much appreciated.

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I have finally installed Mac Os X into VmWare and reinstalled Chimera for Mavericks.

I had a full backup of my Extras folder so I thought this was an easy fix.

I rebooted and now I always get a "Error: cannot find SMBios" error.

After 5 minutes the computer boots successfully but it seems like it is not reading my Extras folder: what is wrong?

I already tried repairing permissions from Disk Utility with no success.

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