Advice needed: Mac time machine backup problem

[deckeda]

To boot an Intel Mac you need GUID but the backup can be Apple Partition. Neither partition scheme has anything to do with your problem however.

Time has run out. Manually copy what you need, what you can, by dragging to another drive.

Regardless of how successful that is, I'd try to then repair the drive with Disk Utility, Drive Warrior etc. while booted from something else. If you don't have anything else to boot from, or can't make something else to boot from, consider the drive dead unless you take the machine to someone who can.

But if Disk Utility is correct and it's a hardware problem, the software fixes I mentioned above won't do any good.

Without a backup to restore from, and no practical way to get the remaining data off the main drive, your last option is to pay a drive restoration shop hundreds of pounds to disassemble the drive, put the platters into a temporary chassis and try to transfer to another drive.

[FLYINGJAY]

It don't work!all you can do is restore you backed files,once you installed osx.

I know it sucks.the good thing is once you install osx from restore dvd,your can restore each program a la cart.



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