rama Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Hi, I recently installed a hdd data restore app (cant remember the name) to get some stuff off a hdd I had formated to mac format previously. had been using it in windows as NTFS before i realised i needed something that used to be there in OSX! So i installed the forensics app and set it to scan away... i interrupted it a few times to check some files to see if they were what i was looking for... but then i mad the stupid mistake.. I started the app again but this time i selected my main Leopard drive insted of the backup drive! I didnt realise until i came back an hour later and it was frozen solid. I hard powered it down and tried to boot it up again... no luck So what ive done so far is boot from the install dvd, tried repair drive and permissions.. still no luck. The weird thing is, it starts loading normally (in -v mode it gets a few bits past finding the boot drive) then it pauses for 10 sec, then all the hdd's power down... quite noisily I might add! scary stuff. any help to restore my much loved install would be greatly appreciated... I knew i should have used time machine before i started this! its been months since i backed up Thank you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115206-forensic-analysis-crashed-and-took-out-my-osx-boot-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 no takers? what about some command line codes for booting.. like -s -v -x etc... which one would i use to flush cache and reload kexts etc... there's a command for that right? maybe i could boot to command line and then do something to repair boot options or something? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115206-forensic-analysis-crashed-and-took-out-my-osx-boot-help/#findComment-816622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anpheus Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 If your hard drive starts making a lot of noise after booting, it's probably a hard drive failure! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115206-forensic-analysis-crashed-and-took-out-my-osx-boot-help/#findComment-817219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama Posted July 13, 2008 Author Share Posted July 13, 2008 yeah thats not the problem. So far i've re-installed kalyway to a different hdd, and used system migration to move all my info over to new install... seems to have worked fine, except for the osx system files. i.e. my video card drivers and all my system updates are not transferred.. is there some way i can go into -s -x mode and manually copy all of the OS related files over to the other drive, replacing the older 10.5.1 install with my perfect 10.5.3 version on the disk that wont boot? or maybe the other way could work... are there any files that i could copy from my new 10.5.1 install (through single user mode) to my 10.5.3 disk that wont boot? ive ran many diagnositcs on the disk and there are no faults with it... some of the OSX system files must have been corrupted when it crashed badly and needed to be switched off at the wall. anyone know which files i could swap over? Thanks a lot guys. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115206-forensic-analysis-crashed-and-took-out-my-osx-boot-help/#findComment-817480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama Posted July 13, 2008 Author Share Posted July 13, 2008 arg, now i cant boot into new install either... migrating must have stuffed it somehow... maybe the 10.5.1 cant open the user settings because they are from a 10.5.3 install? i tried copying the kernels over through the install dvd terminal... doesnt help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115206-forensic-analysis-crashed-and-took-out-my-osx-boot-help/#findComment-817536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anpheus Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Maybe the copying isn't working because your hard disk has bad sectors that aren't being recovered? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115206-forensic-analysis-crashed-and-took-out-my-osx-boot-help/#findComment-817546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama Posted July 13, 2008 Author Share Posted July 13, 2008 Yay! fixed it! I thought I'd post here to let you know what the problem was, just in case it happens to anyone else... I was running fsck on my drive trying to ascertain if there were any errors, but it told me the drive was mounted as read only. So i tried to mount it manually, but every time I typed 'mount' it said 'command not found'!?! So i checked the /sbin directory, and lo and behold... there was no 'mount' file in there! All I had to do was boot into my other osx, open terminal, sudo, copy over the file from one sbin to the other, and reboot back in to my original drive. No more problems! I'm assuming that when the computer crashed during my hdd file recovery, somehow the 'mount' file was corrupted... I knew it was something small, but didn't realise it would be so simple! I hope this helps anyone with similar crashing problems. Cya Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115206-forensic-analysis-crashed-and-took-out-my-osx-boot-help/#findComment-817708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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