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Q: Macbook Hard Drive Corrupted

I have a Macbook Pro that won't boot. Disk Utility won't recognize the partition it just says Untitled. I've tried mostly everything short of formatting the drive. I used EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to see if I could recover the files before erasing. When I run the scan it finds what seems to be all the directories and what looks like most of the files. Basically the structure of the drive seems to be intact. Is there anything left for me to do that would straighten out the disk before formatting?

 

BTW I have Diskwarrior 5 but not exactly sure what to expect out of it. When I rebuild and preview the replacement directory it has 148 gb out of 151 gb available so I'm assuming it'll trash my files. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Sep 5, 2016 8:09 PM

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  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Sep 5, 2016 8:24 PM in response to Envenge
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    Sep 5, 2016 8:24 PM in response to Envenge

    Hi,

     

    Going by your profile your Mac is running v10.11.5 El Capitan.

     

    So try repairing the disk using the built in utilities in OS X Recovery.

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    Envenge Envenge Sep 5, 2016 8:29 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Sep 5, 2016 8:29 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Hi Carolyn, thanks for your reply. Forgive me if I missed something, I'm working on this Mac for a friend so I'm not really familiar with Macs and all that's available. As far as I know I exhausted all of the options in the OS X Recovery. I can't reinstall OS X because the partition won't mount (I'm assuming do to some kind of corruption with the file system), Disk Utility is equally useless because of the drive not mounting, and I have no time machine file to restore to.