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Originally Posted by BobC
I am not an apple person. Is there a way to start your computer in what microsoft calls safe mode. If you can do it then copy the files you need to your external hard drive. The after you get a new hard drive installed you can copy your files back to the new drive.
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Somewhat, Mac OS X has a single user mode (
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106388) like Linux does. However you would need to know some Unix commands to perform some disk checking functions like fsck.
But when you can't mount a disk, that solution wouldn't work anyways.
But before you send you HD, always check a couple of things.
1. Take out your HD and mount it using an external solutions. You would be surprised to see how many times cables and connectors burn out. This is especially true of notebook cables, but they typically use very thin ribbon cables.
2. Check to see if the disk has directory damage, using a product like Disk Warrior
I would stay away from freezing your HD. Typically that doesn't work (well at least for me).