Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Is this bad news...... Please say NO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilp Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 This is common when people are installing windows to a mac. Have you tried starting in recovery mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 How do that lol Sorry I'm still a MAC noob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioneabee Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 I see your problem...................you don't have an "any" key Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 all I did was shut it down earlier, clear out any hanging bugs so to speak. Turned it on and went to this message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 I see your problem...................you don't have an "any" key That's dead right, couldn't find that key anywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Ian, calm down dear... hold down command + R when starting to boot into recovery..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4718 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 Okay 4 options Restore from time machine Reinstall OS X Get help online (which is what I'm doing but on a car forum ) Disk Utility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gangzoom Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Been using macs for 20 years, and dozens of macs, have only ever experienced 'no boot disc' once, due to hard drive failure. Since than I run two backs, one time-machine, and one is a bootable back up I keep updated every 1-2 months. If you have a time machine back up, you could try that first, but you may want to do fresh OSX install, but that might/will wipe the hard drive. Do you have any vital work on the computer?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 No backups on the time machine. Got a heap of pics I transferred from a hard drive onto it with a view to transfer to my 1tb external drive. I'm guessing this is a total loss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldel Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 My mac fell over like this a couple of years back, I think it was a similar thing where it couldn't boot up. I took it to a local computer repair store and they took out the old drive, stuck a shell and USB connector on it and put in a new hard disc for me - I did have a time machine back up but also could recover files from the old disc drive that were not on the time machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jp606 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Have you got Windows on there as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Have you tried turning it off & on again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 No windows installed and tried on and off a few times. Did the disk check thingy and didn't report any errors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Since you can run from the recovery partition (as you can boot into the 4 options above), that implies it is not entirely dead. My suggestion, assuming all else has failed, would be to find a friend with another mac, connect to it via thunderbolt cable, and boot yours into target disk mode. Assuming that works, you maybe able to copy off all your photos via your friends mac. You can then safely risk re-formatting your main partition and re-installing your mac via disk utility and re-install OSX (options 4 and 2 in your list).. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH19021?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 (edited) Oh Ian, a lesson learned I think, get a wireless hard drive and use Time Machine as any electronic device, PC, Mac, tablet etc etc can fail like this.... I personally would do nothing if you can, if I was closer I would swap the HD (if possible) or set it up to boot from an external drive, then hopefully we could get all the data off the drive in your machine. Most decent places, even God forbid the dreaded PCWorld should be able to retrieve everything mate so don't fret if there is anything you really don't want to loose. But please please from now on back up to Time Machine in some way even cloud and don't store pictures or files you don't want to loose on the same drive as your OS Edit - above advice very good, maybe Ady can help with another device and thunderbolt cable? He has all the tech know how and is closer to you than any of the rest of us Edited December 14, 2014 by spursmaddave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 Thanks Dave and Chris, I didn't even know what "time machine" was till now. Why didn't they just call it "BACKUP" instead of calling it after Back to the Future!! Fecking mac twollop!! I'll take it to work, someone is bound to help out, esp one of the techy guys. Thing is I have a spare 1tb drive that I bought and was going to take all important things off. The pics are part way through being transfered from my 500g to the 1tb. Hate computers lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Thanks Dave and Chris, I didn't even know what "time machine" was till now. Why didn't they just call it "BACKUP" instead of calling it after Back to the Future!! Fecking mac twollop!! I'll take it to work, someone is bound to help out, esp one of the techy guys. Thing is I have a spare 1tb drive that I bought and was going to take all important things off. The pics are part way through being transfered from my 500g to the 1tb. Hate computers lol What did you think Time Machine was, a portable Mac Tardis Anyone with a modicum of tech savvy will be able to retrieve anything you want and re-install the OSX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 Thanks Dave and Chris, I didn't even know what "time machine" was till now. Why didn't they just call it "BACKUP" instead of calling it after Back to the Future!! Fecking mac twollop!! I'll take it to work, someone is bound to help out, esp one of the techy guys. Thing is I have a spare 1tb drive that I bought and was going to take all important things off. The pics are part way through being transfered from my 500g to the 1tb. Hate computers lol What did you think Time Machine was, a portable Mac Tardis Anyone with a modicum of tech savvy will be able to retrieve anything you want and re-install the OSX. I thought it was the world clock, "time" machine Thing is time machine popped up the other day and wondered what it was. Thought of its a backup thing then I'll do it, but first remove all the pics as I didn't want to back them up in this fashion. Wish I had now There's a guy at work in IT who's a super mac geek. I'll have a chat with him. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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