Startup Disk not recognized

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Startup Disk not recognized

At startup my OSX partition isn't recognized.

When booting up in Recovery Mode, in Disk Utility I see the partition as disk0s2, and disk1 with Mac OS X Base System. When attempting to Verify or Repair disk, the same results show: "Verify/Repairing volume failed: Unrecognized file system."

It doesn't allow me to restore macOS X, only reinstall, but there are still important documents that I need.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jun 8, 2020 1:56 PM

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ElliotAlderson4 Author

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Jun 11, 2020 6:29 AM in response to ElliotAlderson4

It turns out the Partition Table of my SSD was modified when I, according to Disk Utility's output at the time, "successfully" partitioned my drive.

This solved my issues: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/375686/macos-partition-showing-as-ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffff?rq=1

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BDAqua

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Jun 8, 2020 2:45 PM in response to ElliotAlderson4

In Disk Utility's View Menu, have you chosen Show all devices?

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Jun 8, 2020 11:24 PM in response to BDAqua

Yes, even with "Show All Devices" selected it doesn't show.

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Jun 11, 2020 2:26 AM in response to ElliotAlderson4

I should add that this happened when starting up in Recovery Mode with Option + R. When starting up in Internet Recovery Mode, not even the disk0s2 and disk1 are recognized/shown in Disk Utility.

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BDAqua

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Jun 11, 2020 6:58 AM in response to ElliotAlderson4

Thanks for the report. :)

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