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Mac Pro restore hd

Having huge problems restoring the Hd on a Mac Pro.

Started by verifying disk. It basically stopped part way through and said I had to restore hd from backup (1 to time machine hd with 16 gb free out of 982 gb used)

Tried restore. It hummed align for a few hours then said it could not continue and to start again! This was after saying it was going to Tahoe over 500 hours to complete.

Tried again. After selecting source for backup, it basically did nothing for over an hour and never did retina a restroom point ( which had eventually happened the first time). Cut power. Goes to same point as before and does nothing (spinning color wheel only)

Reboot and try a verify disk on time machine hd. It has been stuck there for hours saying it will be clone in 36 minutes.

So here we sit with a machine seemingly lost in the twilight zone with no progress of any sort on the horizon

What suggestions might you have for this one?

Thanks

Geoff

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Matrox Triple Head To Go Display De

Posted on May 1, 2013 6:12 PM

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TheWalkers Author

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May 12, 2013 8:46 AM in response to The hatter

iPhoto Libarary has moved from the recovery direcdtory to its permanent home and works just fine. Found I had reinstalled an older version of iPhoto and had to go get the new one again (not sure why that did not show up in Purchased but...)

In a nutshell that was accomplished by dragging the whole Picture Folder from the recover directory to the active Picture Folder - 45+ GB woth. Took a few hours but has come across clean.

Then a big boo boo. Cl'osed DW and the recomplied direcodty that the tech at DW helped created vanished too so may have to ask them to redo that. Got the important stuff other than my iMoive files that I will have to rry and recover one way or anotehr

Genearlyy though we are in much better shape than a week ago :-)

Mac Pro restore hd