Q: how to back up macbook pro 2011 that won't boot up properly
I have tried rebooting holding SHIFT KEY, but get the apple logo and 3/4 of the progress bar finished
I tried rebooting holding alt + command + P + R and that gives me same thing
after while computer just shuts off
I need to back up my hard drive which i have not done in 274 (Yes, I know, bone head decision or lack of recent back up)
I was going to plan to head to Apple store tomorrow with my Porsche 4 TB external Time Machine backup
Any suggestions out there?
Thanks for all the help!
Dan
MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1
Posted on Sep 29, 2016 5:41 PM
Hi there, apollosministry and welcome to the Apple forums. I'm glad that you had the good sense to do a backup.
what you'd need to do is to see if you can boot from the recovery partition that's built in to the OS. You can do that by pressing command and R at startup. If that doesn't work, you can plug an Ethernet cable into the back of your MacBook Pro and press command, option and R to see if Internet recovery might work for you. when and if you're successfully able to boot up from the Recovery Partition, run Disk First aid, which is under OS X tools at the top of the screen when you're in the Recovery Partition, then repair disk, which hopefully works. If not, maybe you could try Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro, which, sadly aren't free. You may wish to try Data Rescue 4. It may be that your hard drive is
dying--hopefully not---and there may not be much else you can do save replace it, either with a new hard drive, a fusion drive or an SSD.....
Hopefully whatever I have written here helps you out some....
oh and this is the part of the forum for Mac Pro's (the tower Mac), if you want better help, please consider posting in the MacBook Pro part of the Forum (I think it's under notebooks when you first hit the Apple Support webpage
good luck
John B
Posted on Sep 29, 2016 6:50 PM