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How to transfer files from a Mac desktop to an external hard drive. Transferring files from your Mac desktop to a USB flash drive or an external hard disk seems to be a simple task, right? Well, that might not be as easy as you think, especially if you are more familiar with Windows.
I moved some kext files from /System/Library/Extensions to ~/DisabledExtensions and now my Mac doesn't boot giving me 'kernel panic' error related to some ATAPI driver.
This method should work fine for DVDs you made using iDVD, for example. Open Disk Utility. Insert your DVD into your Mac. Wait until the DVD shows up in the Disk Utility window, then click on it once to select it. Go to the File menu, select New, and from it’s sub-menu select New Disk Image from. It is not uncommon that users accidentally erase a hard drive using Disk Utility on Mac. If you have run into the same situation, you can use the powerful Mac data recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover your files erased by Disk Utility with simple steps and get back your important files quickly and safely. Feb 13, 2017 I have myself managed to recover the vast majority of a hard disk this way. To do this you would need to boot from a different drive, install Disk Warrior on it, run it to try and access the failing drive and then you should be able to try using the Finder to copy files from the virtual copy of the drive. Feb 07, 2019 Migration Assistant copies all of your files to your new Mac so that you don't have to copy your files manually. If your files are currently on a Windows PC, follow the PC migration steps instead.; If your new Mac is using OS X Mountain Lion v10.8 or earlier. Using Disk Utility to quickly and easily make a complete, bootable backup to an external drive; Using Carbon Copy Cloner to either (a) do the same thing as Disk Utility, or (b) to clone a certain folder or group of folders (another program that does a great job is SuperDuper!); Drag-and-drop copy files and folders for a quick backup of.
I want to copy these kext files back on their place. How do I do this?
Is there some kind of Live-CD or Live-USB which will allow me to copy files?
Note:
- This is on macbook, so removing HD would be troublesome.
- I don't have another mac nearby
- Internet recovery doesn't work giving -2002F error
- There is no Recovery Partition on this macbook
- Single user mode and verbose mode doesn't work giving same panic error
- There is no Mac Os X installation DVD
Macbook Pro 15 Late 2011
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Manual Transfer Mac Files Using Disk Utility Terminal
- I solved this using Mac Os X Lion install DVD.
- Boot your Mac from Mac Os X Lion install DVD by holding Option key at startup
- When a window appears go to menu and find Terminal and run it
- From inside terminal you can copy any files ( I used commands: df, ls, cd, mv )This works for Macbook Pro late 2011 but will not work for 2012 and later models because Apple prevented them from being able to boot from install DVD or USB. Thus all recovery tools like DiskWarrior Boot DVD, Drive Genius and similar will not work on 2012 and later macs.
- The other option is to ask a friend with Mac to make a Recovery USB using OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0 and make a DMG file from it using Disk Utility and send you over internet. Then use the TransMac application under Windows and burn DMG on your USB stick. You will be able to boot from this USB stick into Recovery Mode and from there you can run Terminal to copymove files or do whatever you need.
Apple should distribute some bootable ISO or DMG image which can be downloaded from their website and burned on disk or USB and used to recover Mac offline.
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Can you start up in Internet recovery mode by holding option-command-R on startup? If you can, try to reinstall OS X over the existing installation. Internet recovery mode is supported by all Macs that came with 10.7 or later and by some older Macs after a firmware update. It is different from the normal recovery mode and does not require a recovery partition.
If others got here searching for how to copy files to an external drive and you are able to start up in recovery mode or Internet recovery mode, you can create a disk image from Disk Utility. Hold command-R on startup, open Disk Utility, select either the OS X volume or the drive of the OS X volume, press the New Image button on the toolbar, and save the image on an external drive. Or if you can start up in single user mode, you can mount an external drive in single user mode by running
where
LriLri/dev/disk1s2
is a disk identifer shown by diskutil list
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