Q: How to back up MacBook Pro in safe mode
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Mar 22, 2014 11:00 AMby seacloudstudio,I'm not sure this is all new to me I have backed up my computer onto an external hard drive before but it's been far too long and now I need to nuke and plow my computer so it will work again but I'm afraid I will lose all my family photos and a few important documents
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Mar 22, 2014 11:37 AMby Melophage,seacloudstudio,
you can follow the instructions on this Apple page, in the “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility” section. (You can follow them even if you have a newer version of OS X than 10.6 installed.)
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Mar 22, 2014 11:52 AMby seacloudstudio,Hi I tried this already but I can't get past the section of repair disk it says in red
Unused node is not erased ( node = 81)
Invalid leaf record count
( it should be 2353 instead of 2354)
Invalid node structure
The volume macintosh had could not be verified.
Then it says A few other things then error disk utility can't repair disk
Also under S. M. A. R. T status it says failing
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Mar 22, 2014 12:28 PMby Melophage,seacloudstudio,
if your internal disk is failing, then skip the verification and repair steps and copy whatever you can from the failing disk to your external disk. Once you’ve copied what you can, connect your external disk to a different computer, to ensure that you have good copies of those family photos and important documents on your external disk. Look into purchasing a new internal hard drive or SSD as soon as possible; don’t try to reuse the failing disk by reformatting it.
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Mar 22, 2014 12:32 PMby seacloudstudio,Thank you but I'm having a difficult time with the steps on how to make copies or recover photos /files etc. I cannot find them anywhere. I'm not computer savy. I have followed the steps up to this point with success but now I'm totally stuck. Can you please help me with the steps on moving the files over to external hard drive?
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Mar 22, 2014 12:56 PMby seacloudstudio,My version is 10.6.6 when I look up my info it says yes under bootable! Is this what you mean? Like I said I'm not computer savvy. Sorry. I don't have another computer but I believe I have a transfer cable??? That we purchased for our previous macbook. Is that what you mean by FireWire cable 800? All I have is my iPad and iPhone
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Mar 22, 2014 1:13 PMby Melophage,Helpfulseacloudstudio,
if you’ve never installed Mac OS X on your external disk, then it won’t be bootable. (The “yes under bootable” is probably in reference to your internal disk.)
Your Early 2011 MacBook Pro has a FireWire 800 port, located between its Ethernet port and its Thunderbolt port. It requires its own cable to be able to connect to FireWire 800 peripherals or to another Mac with a FireWire 800 port. If you have a friend with such a Mac, you could purchase a FireWire 800 cable to boot your Mac into Target Disk mode, which would let your Mac act as an external hard drive to the second Mac; you could then use the second Mac to copy the photos and important files from your Mac.
How much free space is on your external disk? If you still have the grey Mac OS X Install DVD which came in the box with your Mac, you could install Mac OS X from that DVD onto your external disk, and then use Startup Manager to boot from your external disk, and then copy your photos and important files from your internal disk to your external disk using the Finder.
