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My 2011 Macbook Air running open core patcher froze while browsing chrome for school. I figured this was nothing and restarted the computer. (since there was no input I had to hold pwr btn) and then I booted it up, but It seemed to freeze with the bar only half way across. I tried Resetting smc, the nvram thing, and tried apple hardware test, that froze too. I did a cmd r for  bootup, and it seemed fine loading into internet recovery for mac os lion. This brought me to the disk utility, and verifying the disk and repairing has no errors, but immediatly the disks03 or whatever fails for both tests. I need to keep the information on this drive and the profiles. I tried mounting the drive too and It wont budge. The terminal didnt help either. (https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/how-to-keep-older-macs-secure-a-geeky-approach/)

 

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Try making a macOS installer USB, booting off that, nuking the drive, and starting over.

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Not gonna be a way to save the data there you think? Because I need the data

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Well, can you pop the drive into another Mac and extract the data?

Laptop: 2019 16" MacBook Pro i7, 512GB, 5300M 4GB, 16GB DDR4 | Phone: iPhone 13 Pro Max 128GB | Wearables: Apple Watch SE | Car: 2007 Ford Taurus SE | CPU: R7 5700X | Mobo: ASRock B450M Pro4 | RAM: 32GB 3200 | GPU: ASRock RX 5700 8GB | Case: Apple PowerMac G5 | OS: Win 11 | Storage: 1TB Crucial P3 NVME SSD, 1TB PNY CS900, & 4TB WD Blue HDD | PSU: Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 600W | Display: LG 27GL83A-B 1440p @ 144Hz, Dell S2719DGF 1440p @144Hz | Cooling: Wraith Prism | Keyboard: G610 Orion Cherry MX Brown | Mouse: G305 | Audio: Audio Technica ATH-M50X & Blue Snowball | Server: 2018 Core i3 Mac mini, 128GB SSD, Intel UHD 630, 16GB DDR4 | Storage: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad (6TB WD Blue HDD, 12TB Seagate Barracuda, 1TB Crucial SSD, 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD)
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It is a Extra long nvme inside. I wouldent be able to put it into any of my other macbooks, or pc.

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4 minutes ago, IClearsightI said:

It is a Extra long nvme inside. I wouldent be able to put it into any of my other macbooks, or pc.

Borrow or buy something to accomplish the job?

Unfortunately it's a hard lesson to learn to backup your data.

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Yeah, I couldn't do a Time machine hence It was running open core patcher. Thank you guys

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19 minutes ago, IClearsightI said:

I wouldent be able to put it into any of my other macbooks, or pc.

Get an NVMe enclosure and pop the drive in. Really nice ones are like $20 I think.

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The connection is different. Its a very early version.

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27 minutes ago, IClearsightI said:

It is a Extra long nvme inside. I wouldent be able to put it into any of my other macbooks, or pc.

Target Disk Mode will basically turn that laptop into an external drive, if you've got the right cable.

 

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/transfer-files-mac-computers-target-disk-mode-mchlp1443/mac

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My 2009 Mac wanted firewire, and the 2011 wanted thunderbolt and I don't have thunderbolt but I tried usb and no.

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