oddbrawl Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 So yeah I wasn't thinking and installed an apple update. Now I am stuck at a restart screen. I've restarted and reinstalled OSX (I'm using Kalyway) and I just end up at the same restart screen. So I guess I am forced to format and re-install. I didn't get around to setting up time machine so now I am hoping some one can tell me how I can grab any documents I had on my computer before I format and start from scratch. Also are these settings ok for my build. (see attachment) My Build: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor LGA775 Kentsfield 2.40GHZ 1066FSB 8MB Intel D975XBX2 ATX LGA775 Conroe 975X DDR2 PCI-E16 SATA RAID Sound GBLAN 1394 Motherboard Corsair XMS2 DHX TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX 4GB DDR2 2X2GB PC2-6400 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB SATA2 3GB/S 7200RPM 16MB Samsung SH-S203B Black SATA DVD+RW 20X8X16 DVD-RW EVGA E-GEFORCE 7300GT If I can't grab my documents it won't be the end of the world it would just be nice. Also should I try a different flavor of OSX? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asc3nti0n Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 You've reformatted again already... I see that now... but I recovered my OS after accidental updating... I documented my process here on the board... and although I used a second Mac computer to do it, there is no reason why you can't boot from a DVD to do it... or single-user mode at startup may work too... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...&pid=867768 "Help I broke Mums' Hackintosh" and http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?aut...p;showentry=392 here is the correct procedure to do it. But I don't think I understand your point, to recover files from a hard drive AFTER a reformat of said hard drive... not going to happen without heavy-duty software. If you have just installed Kalyway over the top of your old installation... time for someone else to jump in, does Mac OS X Install wipe stuff to fit the OS onto a partition if there is something there already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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