Q: Faulty hard drive - work-around for retrieving data from external drive?
I have an SSD MBP. This morning I started having the blinking folder problem. Tried clean install via Cmd R - hard drive not recognized. Disk utility shows Disk 0 and base system. My Lacie Rugged external harddrive recognized.
Here's the thing: I really only need the data on the Lacie Rugged. Problem is, it only has a thunderbolt and an eSATA connection (which they advertise as a USB connection, but it's actually an eSATA port with USB capability or something). The faulty MBP is my only computer with thunderbolt and I have no eSATA cables. My other computers - 6-year old imac with firewire and USB, 2010 lenovo with usb and ethernet. I only have ethernet-ethernet and usb to usb cables at home.
Is there someway I can 1) boot the base system, 2) daisy chain the old imac to faulty mbp to external drive, 3) do an install of OSX on the lacie external drive and then boot from that, to get the data? Other suggestions?
This is not a Christmas puzzler, it's real.
J.
MacBook Pro with Retina display
Posted on Dec 25, 2015 4:55 AM