Mac mini Data Recovery

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Network1

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Hi all.

Need to get my photo library off my mac mini. Does not want to boot up. Have run first aid. No problems. Have reinstalled OS via disk utilities. Same problem. Zapped the ram. No change.

Have linked external hard Drive and was in process to create new image of hard drive on external drive. Tells me I dont have permission to write to my external hard drive.

Any suggestions?
 
Do you have a second Mac?
 
Network1 said:
Unfortunately not...thus the process followed as described.
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When you reinstalled the OS, didn’t you wipe the personal content?

Can you, or are you willing to remove the drive from the MM? And connect it to other machine with a usb cable?

And is the disc encrypted or not
 
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If you have another Mac, you can use Target Disk Mode via Thunderbolt/ FireWire cable to access your Mac Mini’s drive and copy the library.
 
gfmalan said:
When you reinstalled the OS, didn’t you wipe the personal content?

Can you, or are you willing to remove the drive from the MM? And connect it to other machine with a usb cable?

And is the disc encrypted or not
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I did not do the erase procdure before reinstalling, as decribed below:


In the menu bar, choose Apple menu > Restart. As your Mac restarts, hold down the Command and R keys until the macOS Utilities window appears.

Select Disk Utility, then click Continue.

Select your startup disk on the left, then click Erase.

Click the Format pop-up menu, choose Mac OS Extended, enter a name, then click Erase.

Important: Erasing the disk removes all the information from the disk. Be sure to back up the information you want to keep to an external device.

After the disk is erased, choose Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility.

Select Reinstall macOS, click Continue, then follow the onscreen instructions.

2nd question....have not considerd removing the hard drive. Sitting here contemplating buying iMac and then do the Mac to Mac procedure. Mac mini became very slow. Only 4 GB ram. Not upgradable.
 
Command line.

Mount the external rw and copy it by hand.

Even better rsync it.
 
Lord Flacko said:
If you have another Mac, you can use Target Disk Mode via Thunderbolt/ FireWire cable to access your Mac Mini’s drive and copy the library.
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Okay. Aquired an iMac...you can pay me later...

Thunderbolt cables quite expensive...
 
Latest status

Disk Targeting Mode Approach

Standard USB-A to USB-A does not work
USB-C to USB 2 does not work
USB-C to USB 3 does not work
Require then USB-C adaptor to Thunderbolt 2

External Disk Imaging

Mounted external disk via command line - successful
New disk image fail - don't have rights
Tried to image a folder - error 61 - write rights again
 
Just boot off a linux livecd/usb and see if you can access the filesystem, you might have to install hfs/apfs support for this.
 
You could also just connect the drive to a Windows desktop PC via the SATA connection ? Install the trial version of HFS+ and copy all your data off that way. Otherwise, A 2.5" SATA USB 3.0 enclosure connected to any computer should get the job done as well.
 
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