#MACBOOK EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE REPAIR MAC OS X#
#MACBOOK EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE REPAIR PASSWORD#

Put the original hard drive back into the computer, tried holding down the shift key, computer would have the turning wheel, taking a lot longer than usual (maybe repairing) then suddenly the computer would shut down completely.ДЇor some reason however I am now able to boot from an external hard drive with the original hard drive in the computer. Proceeded to attempt a repair, given very similar message but saying first aid was unable to preform a repair. Un-check all of the items except Essential System Software. Click on the Customize button and a new window will appear. Click the Show All Disks button and select your USB flash drive.

Unable To Mount Volume For Repair External Hard Drive Mac Mini Running I also tried on a Mac mini running 10.14.6 but could not see it in Finder either.However, from the discussion group I have cited a lot of people had the same problem but with a disk that had data on it.

#MACBOOK EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE REPAIR MAC OS X#

Cloned completed but was unable to mount this drive either (obviously as its a clone) Double-click the Install Mac OS X icon and progress through the installer until you get to the screen that says Mac OS X will be install on. However this did not seem to work, so I disconnected the drive. Verify disk resulted in 'Keys out of order' Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972), told myself to run a repair.Д«efore running a repair I did a disk duplication using terminal on another computer, cloned the entire drive to another drive as a backup before I proceeded with the repair. Removed the hard drive, now I am able to boot from an external hard drive, ran memtest, 3 passes, found no errors, ran Techtool 4 Pro, found no errors with the rest of the hardware (hard drive not installed however)ДЄttempted to plug the original hard drive into another computer through an external case, drive would show in the disk utility but would not mount.

#MACBOOK EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE REPAIR PASSWORD#

Initially when starting the computer it would load to a console screen asking for login, enter any login you wish press enter, asks for a password, regardless of what username or password used (weather it be the actually user account name and password) it would display briefly invalid login, console screen would dissapear and eventually reappear asking for loginДЇor some reason I was not able to boot off an external device while this hard drive was still in the computer (apple logo would go off center and display some strange graphics and freeze). The computer is a Power Mac G5 (dual processor), OS 10.4 I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, was a little confused.

Macbook external hard drive repair