Intel Mac :: HD Missing On Startup Disk

May 24, 2012

I didn't just lose my harddrive. My 2007 iMac with Leopard froze up yesterday and it looks like I need a new hard-drive.But I thought I'd try to follow the support info to reboot it with the startup disk so that I could try to backup the files.I inserted the disk, pressed C on startup, and worked my way to disk utilities.I clicked on the Macintosh HD on the left side and clicked "repair disk." and after a couple minutes I got an error message saying that the repair failed.Ok, so then I stopped, but then noticed that the "Macintosh HD" on the left side is now in grey color print. And when I click on it, it looks like there is 0 bytes on it.Did I just lose my entire hard-drive?? Please tell me that there is some hope. I was having problems with backing up my info onto my WD Mybook through TimeMachine, so it's been over a year since that was last done. I am merely trying to retrieve files from the last year from my hard-drive before I have a new one installed. I'm dropping off the computer in the morning with an Apple 3rd party consultant to try and retrieve what he can from my hard-drive. I just want to know if I just made things worse.

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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Missing Disk Space And No Usb Startup

May 16, 2012

I have a white macBook (10.7.3, 250g HD) which has begun to behave in an odd way and which I have so far failed to resolve. 

First I got a message saying very little disk space left - only 420MB which is strange because I knew the HD to be far from full. The beach ball gave me very little access to the Finder but I was eventually able to empty safari cache which gave me 6Gb.  

Checking the root disk folder sizes showed that only 130gb was listed in the various folders but the status bar showed that only 6gb out of 250gb was available. I tried to start up from an external USB disk (no Firewire on this machine, sadly) but the laptop refused to starup from it - tried cable in both USB ports, disk is GUID formatted. I shut down the computer - had to force shutdown with power key as unresponsive to Finder command. 

On restarting I got a message about forced shutdown etc but status bar now says 40gb available (when there should be over 100gb). I was able to select external USB drive in Startup preferences but machine will not startup ffrom external drive. 

Disk Utility reports no problems with internal drive. I want to use Disk Warrior but cannot find cd, hence attempt to startup from external drive. Cannot even check disk while running DW from internal disk as it says prefs file corrupted or write protected. Trashing it (as suggested) makes no difference as new prefs file still unusable. 

I have a TM backup but don't really want to use it if it is likely to have the same corruption.Also, why is the USB disk not starting up the Machine? Only thing I can think of is to do an archive/install of Lion, but is the bloating in the system or are ther some hidden files somewhere which won't be changed?

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Jun 15, 2012

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MacMini 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo
2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Jul 1, 2014

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Mar 16, 2012

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Intel Mac :: My Startup Disk Is Full

Apr 28, 2012

I have an Imac with Snow Leopard but my startup disk is full; I tried the System Disk to start it up and I also ran the disk utility but nothing. Any ideas on how to acces the hard drive to delete some files and free up space for the startup? Or what should I do to get it to start?

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Jun 5, 2012

I'm getting a pop up that my startup disk is full. What do i do?

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Jun 16, 2012

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Jun 17, 2012

Ive made an OS bootable super duper backup of my white intel imac (late 2006) 10.6.8 onto a WD My Book Studio 2TB (GUID partioned)  and although the drive appears to be running fine from the OS its not being seen as a startup drive when connected via usb or firewire (with an 800 to 400 adapter) after holding down the option key at startup. I tested the startup drive capability on a newer imac running 10.7.4 and it shows up as a viable startup drive when holding option at boot up and plugged in via firewire. 

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Mar 10, 2012

I ran omnidisk sweeper and it shows I only have 39GB of used space.  However, when I check the info on the startup disk it shows that I only have 300mb-5GB left depending on the day.  I have deleted all unnecessary files that I can.  I can't really find anything else to delete.  I only have a couple programs installed that are pretty basic like word and excel.

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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Apr 15, 2012

Can't download updates because there are too many things on my start up disk.  Where do I find my start up disk and how can I delete unwanted items w/o losing my important ones?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Jun 6, 2012

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Jun 10, 2012

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Jun 17, 2012

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Jul 5, 2012

My 2009 mac has been telling me the start up disk is full so I thought to save iphoto and itunes to an external drive. But I have been advised to upgrade the os first as I am still on snow leopard. Before I buy lion (I can't wait for mountain lion) can I upgrade while the start up disk is full? Or will it not let me (it won't do the updates that are coming through at the moment)? If I save iphoto and itunes to the external drive first will I still be able to access them/ properly?

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iMac

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Jun 16, 2012

I can't update my software as i keep getting the message that my start up disk is full - (mackintosh HD 1TB SATA disk) When i click on 'about this mac' - storage, almost every bit of space is taken up by 'other'. Hardly any audio, photos, video etc. I am a complete novice when it comes to things like this and thought it virtually impossible to fill a disk of this capacity! 

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Jun 16, 2012

I need to make space on my startup disk. I bought a Time Capsule. How do I move files from startup disk to my time capsule?

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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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I'm trying to sort out a problem with a mid-2007 iMac. When trying to start it up normally it would get past the Apple screen, then go onto a blue screen with a cursor and stay there. 

I made a bootable Snow Leopard USB drive to try and repair the disk / re-install the OS. Plugged in the USB drive, and tried to boot the iMac into startup manager by holding down the option key. But instead of showing the volumes to launch startup manager, it keeps bringing up a grey screen with the Firewire logo on, which I believe is what happens when launching into Target Disk Mode.

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iMac

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Jun 11, 2012

I am running OSX 10.6.8. I keep receiving messages that my startup disk is full. I tried to free space up by emptying trash & got error code -8003.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Mar 21, 2012

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 24" 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

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OS X :: Disk Warrior Unable To Replace Startup Disk / Connect To TC To Transfer Across DW's Preview

Feb 18, 2009

Yesterday I switched on my macbook (Leopard) and got the flashing question mark. Ran all the resets and booted with disk utility which encountered an 'Invalid B-tree Node' when attempting to repair the disk. Additionally, the SMART status was verified.

I ran DW 4 last night, and performed the hardware tests which reported that the disk was operating like normal. The majority of my media files and additional work is backed up to my Time Capsule but I still have a folder of papers that are relatively new, and wanted to retrieve. While DW managed to reconstruct the majority of my drive (there seemed to be 15g missing - but it's just music files) including this folder, it couldn't replace the disk, as it encountered 'Serious Disk Malfunctions'.

So, via the Disk Preview I want to transfer my saved folders to my TC, but I don't appear to be able to locate it (via ethernet) through DW - even if it's connected when I boot up in DW. So, first request is: Can I connect to my TC to transfer across in DW's preview?

Second is: What are my options if DW can't replace? Do I need to take it into Apple and get a new HD (it's out of warranty)? It's possibly worth noting that I'm a student and have absolutely no money - so cost effective options are a bonus!

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Jun 24, 2014

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Feb 28, 2009

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Mac Mini
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Hardware :: Internal Hard Disk Does Not Show In Startup Disk Options

Jan 1, 2008

I have 2 internal Serial-ATA disks:

Both were checked (with Disk Utility and DiskWarrior) and are OK. But only one of the two disks shows in the Startup Disk list in System Preferences->Startup Disk.

PowerMac G5 / OS X (V.10.4.11)
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Software :: Startup Volume Is Missing?

Sep 29, 2008

The problem began with the Mac running slow and then freezing. Shutting down and restarting (if possible) gave some improvements until finally I got to a point where I could not open up anything from the desktop. I was able to open up my applications from a Firefox image on the desktop. If I placed anything in the applications folder I could open it up as normal. After doing some back up I then began to try different lines of appraoch for solutions:

First: I went into the Disk Utility and verified the disk and repaired permissions. This did not solve the problems.

Second: I booted the computer with TechTool Deluxe. I ran the tests and it found an error on the Volume it scanned---Error -4. I then did a repair of this error which went through successfully. The program then proceeded with another scan and uncovered Error -694. I let it run through the fix process but chose not to save the changes because it eliminated so much of my data. I was hoping I could find another solution before having to resort what appeared to me to be so drastic.

Third: I thought I might try and re-install Mac OS X 3.9 but there was no volume showing to write it to.

Fourth attempt: I tried to boot the computer with my Mac OS X installer CD and then to use disk utility from there. I noticed that my startup volume appeared in the list of options within disk utility but was 'greyed ' out instead of bold faced. I was able to select it and run the Repair function but that failed. I also noticed that when I selected that start up disk it said it was unmounted. I clicked on the mount button but that did not do anything. I then quit installer and it asked me to choose a startup disk, I chose Network Setup since it was the only option. After that when I would try and start the computer I would get a flashing world sign followed by the folder with a flashing question mark. I realize now it was trying to start from that Network Setup, but could not and afterward it could not find anything to boot from and thus the question mark

Fifth attempt: I tried to boot into Safe Mode. I could not. I tried to boot while holding down the Option key. Startup Disk Manager comes on the screen but there are no start up disks to choose from. It appears my Hard Disk has vanished.

Sixth attempt: I then booted again from TechTool Deluxe and ran through the whole process again, but for some reason the repairs could not be completed. I tried several times but the program keeps giving me the same message: "The Volume Structure Rebuild could not be completed"

The best I can figure is that I had a progressively failing hard drive which finally totally gave out. This seems to be the best explanation for all of the problems but I am hoping that someone on here might have a solution for me which I have not discovered yet.

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