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- Jul 13, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte B550 Vision D
- CPU
- Ryzen 9 5900X
- Graphics
- RX 6900 XT
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Okay, so the strangest thing has happened to me updating from 13.2.1 to 13.3.1 today. I installed the AMD CPU patches in the Kernel section, and went to update via Software Update. It failed the 2gb update, but the 11gb version worked.
Now this is where stuff gets strange.
Minor issue: The system has set itself to boot directly into my user account, instead of having me type in my password. That can be set back, but it is very strange.
Bigger issue: The screen flickers on/off, on/off, on/off for something close to 3-4 minutes, before I land on the desktop. I have never experienced anything like that.
Biggest/major issue: all my drives apart from the boot drive are gone. I had a 2TB HFS+ storage drive, and 1 TB exFat storage drive for use between Windows and Mac (I dual boot). The drives are simply not present. The 1TB NVMe that I boot Windows from showed up, but has now also disappeared, without me doing anything.
Sometimes in Disk Utility one drive shows up, but I can't be mounted, and I can't mount it in Terminal.
However using a free trial of Macdrive in Windows, I was able to see the drives an make sure that they still contain the data and are working.
What could this be?
Now this is where stuff gets strange.
Minor issue: The system has set itself to boot directly into my user account, instead of having me type in my password. That can be set back, but it is very strange.
Bigger issue: The screen flickers on/off, on/off, on/off for something close to 3-4 minutes, before I land on the desktop. I have never experienced anything like that.
Biggest/major issue: all my drives apart from the boot drive are gone. I had a 2TB HFS+ storage drive, and 1 TB exFat storage drive for use between Windows and Mac (I dual boot). The drives are simply not present. The 1TB NVMe that I boot Windows from showed up, but has now also disappeared, without me doing anything.
Sometimes in Disk Utility one drive shows up, but I can't be mounted, and I can't mount it in Terminal.
However using a free trial of Macdrive in Windows, I was able to see the drives an make sure that they still contain the data and are working.
What could this be?
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