Hi,
There's an error on my hard drive and need to reformat the drive and reinstall snow leopard. I need to back up recent work on my either time machine drive or another drive.
I have started up using the install disk and my time machine drive is recognised. What should I do now?
Thanks
If you can boot normally do so and run Time Machine. If you can't, try using Disk Utility/Restore to copy the backup to a new location. Please note that this will reformat the destination partition.
Hi thanks for the help 🙂
The mac is not booting normally, just from disk. What I should do is extract certain files made since I last backed it up two weeks ago. I have another mac and other hard drives. I can attach drives and I guess a network cable so I suppose my question is How do I access the laptop hard drive to find the files from the last two weeks to export? I would then run a restore from time machine and re-import the recent files.
Any links or suggestions for network shortcuts and key commands all useful
Thanks
You are welcome. As far as I know, you can't access the files on the hard drive unless you copy them to a working drive, which is what my suggestion above will do.
Can I back up to time machine from start up disk
