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macos - Repair or recover drive from Mac OSX recovery mode


My main HDD is failing to boot. (Neither Normal nor Safe mode). Single User seems to work. I can only boot from Recovery Mode or DVD.


The scenario was the following:



  • Computer was asleep (lid down).

  • Lifted the lid then connected USB mouse.

  • Mouse nor trackpad nor keyboard responded.

  • Closed the lid, removed the USB mouse then opened the lid again.

  • Trackpad and keyboard responsive once again, but after trying to close some programs computer freezes.

  • Shutdown computer by pressing power button for 10 seconds.

  • At restart computer doesn't boot anymore.


When booting in verbose I noticed the following:


...
...
USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 000000009833 0x5ac 0x8403 0x9833
disk0s2: I/O error.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Write] [PBlkNum 2] [FSLogMsgID 61471212] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [FSLogMsgID 61471212] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
jnl: unknown-dev: update_fs_block: failed to update block 2 (ret 5)
jnl: unknown-dev: journal_open: Error replaying the journal!
hfs: early jnl init: failed to open/create the journal (retval 0)
Kernel is LP64
com.apple.launchd                       1          com.apple.launchd
com.apple.launchd                       1          com.apple.launchd
***
com.apple.launchd                       1          com.apple.launchd
** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)
** Root file system
   Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-557-393)
jnl: disk0s2: replay_journal: from 13043200 to: 3971072 (joffset 0x15502000)
disk0s2: I/O error.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Write] [PBlkNum 2] [LBlkNum 2] [FSLogMsgID 1396728806] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevMode devfs] [MountPth /dev] [Path /dev/disk0s2] [FSLogMsgID 1396728806] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
jnl: disk0s2: update_fs_block: failed to update block 2 (ret 5)
jnl: disk0s2: journal_open: Error replaying the journal!
hfs_mount: journal_open == NULL; couldn't be opened on Macintosh HD
mount_hfs: Invalid argument
FIP USER Space POST: Integrity test failed!
BootCacheControl: could not unlink bootcache playlist /var/db/BootCache.playlist: 30 Read-only file system

After that it just gets stuck and never gets past that.


I booted in recovery mode then tried verify and repair disk with disk utilities put is seems to be OK. However Macintosh HD cannot be mounted.


Tried fsck_hfs from Recovery Mode terminal then got Macintosh HD cannot be repaired.


I'll want to know if there is anyway to rescue the system without reinstalling Mac OSX or at least a way to recover some filesfrom the drive before reinstalling Mac OSX.



Answer



I managed to recover my data in single-user mode by mounting an external drive then copying the data to it, for people with similar problems I strongly recommend you to backup your info as soon as possible because after doing this I reformatted the drive then tried to reinstall Mac OSX just to find out that the drive was failing again. Long story short, the drive is dying... or, maybe dead... or more like a zombie veggie. Before his passing I tried to repair it with DiskWarrior but it didn't see the drive (probably because the drive couldn't be mounted); however DataRescue could see the drive and also retrieved a big hunch of data, some corrupt DMGs thou.


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