PSA: Hard Drive Failure/Restore
Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kIt's easy to think "it won't happen to me."
Somehow my system files were corrupted, and I couldn't use the standard tools to fix them. And I couldn't open and close my files, cause the system files were corrupted.
NO PROBLEM because I regularly back up my computer. I keep Time Machine hissing away for an incremental backup, and I have a weekly backup as well that's bootable. When things went south, I booted from my external drive, installed the system again, restored anything that was missing and went back to avoiding writing.
You, too, can be casual when you regularly back up your data. The first time it happened it was 1992 and I panicked. Since then I've been a backup junkie, and I've been glad of it five times.
Didn't even figure it out myself, just used Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac
Somehow my system files were corrupted, and I couldn't use the standard tools to fix them. And I couldn't open and close my files, cause the system files were corrupted.
NO PROBLEM because I regularly back up my computer. I keep Time Machine hissing away for an incremental backup, and I have a weekly backup as well that's bootable. When things went south, I booted from my external drive, installed the system again, restored anything that was missing and went back to avoiding writing.
You, too, can be casual when you regularly back up your data. The first time it happened it was 1992 and I panicked. Since then I've been a backup junkie, and I've been glad of it five times.
Didn't even figure it out myself, just used Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac