alishad123

Q: Physical partition corrupted, fixes?

Hey everyone, I have a corrupt hard drive, with a logical partition and would like to know if there is anything I can do to fix it.

 

some details i think might help...

 

Macbook 13in mid 2012 750gb HDD

Processor 2.9GHz intel i7

memory 8GB 1600MHz DDR3

Superdrive is broken so I can't use discs.

 

Physical partition 660gb Corrupt, non bootable, but readable - OS X El Capitan 10.11.6

     -Two users, both Admin, Zero Access to one of them.

     -It corrupted when I tried to install OS Sierra. At the time the Logical partition was running Windows 7, I erased it and installed OS X so I can still use my mac.

Logical partition 90gb - OS X El Capitan 10.11.6

 

Toshiba External HDD 1TB

     - Becomes uninitialised when formatted to JHFS+.

     -Crashes and becomes uninitialised when try to copy files from the corrupt partition whilst formatted to HFS+

     -Disk utility is unable to do anything for anything, i have to use terminal to format. (its now unmountable for some reason, which has just happened as I was typing this)

 

 

I get the pop up telling me OSX can't repair the corrupt disk but it can still be read, and some of my files retrieved. When I copy my files over to the External, like my Desktop folder(96GB), it gets halfway, then stops and becomes uninitialised. Ive tried formatting it to JHFS+ but it is uninitialised right off the bat, and the HFS+ format has trouble copying..

 

Is there anything i can do to fix this? if not, if I erase the 660gb physical partition, will i still be able to boot the logical, and then, will i be able to merge the two together?

 

I hope all this makes sense, and i hope you can help, thanks for reading

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 28, 2016 5:33 AM