![]() You can in theory boot to a Recovery partition or the Internet Recovery software, from that you can then in theory use Terminal to copy files to an external drive. Is there any way to use Terminal to back up my files to an external drive? Or am I completely screwed? That being said, I see that I can access Terminal from Recovery mode. All of my research on the problem has pretty much lead to the conclusion that my hard drive is on it's last legs.īecause I am an absolute idiot, I have never activated Time Machine, and therefor, I have no backup of any of my files, and I don't see anyway to create a backup in recovery mode. I even attempted to use the /fsck/ command in Single User mode to repair my disk, but it just gave me a disk I/O error. I tried repairing the disk in recovery mode, but I get an error that simply states that the hardrive cannot be repaired and that I should back up as many files as I can. Anytime I try to boot it up, it the loading bar fills to about the 1/4 mark and then the computer completely shuts down. ![]() ![]() I think my Macbook Pro's hardrive is giving up the ghost. So before I begin, I have a Mid 2011 Macbook Pro 15 inch, 16gb of RAM, and Yosemite 10.10.2 installed on my system.
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