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Hi,
Everything was working perfectly on High Sierra 10.13.3.
The OS was on an M.2 drive, and my home folder on an SSD drive.
Then it broke.
I always keep my Hackintosh on (24h/24). One morning, when i opened the monitor everything was slow and the CPU was very high. I tried to quite some apps, but couldn't. "Force quit" didn't work either.
Whatever I did, the "small pie" kept turning and turning.
I finally shut down with the power button, and when I tried to reboot... and error message said that there was no bootable drive.
Then I tried to boot with my Super Duper clone on a USB drive... didn't work, still "no bootable drive".
I also tried with a bootable recovery USB key (used with success a few weeks ago to recover a broken Sierra).
In the bios boot menu, I couldnt't see any of my drives (M.2, internal SSD and USB HDD).
Finally, the only thing that worked was to reset the bios to it's default options and to install a Linux distribution. I installed it on the internal SSD, keeping my M.2 drive in case I could recover it later (and reinstall my home folder on the SSD from a backup).
Today I took a look at my Super Duper clone on the USB HDD, and it contains an EFI-Backups folder. The most recent is r4359, dated January 27.
I wonder if I could use this backup to recover (fix) my bootable M.2 drive (the one with the OS), but I have no idea how to proceeed. Any suggestion would be appreciated...
Everything was working perfectly on High Sierra 10.13.3.
The OS was on an M.2 drive, and my home folder on an SSD drive.
Then it broke.
I always keep my Hackintosh on (24h/24). One morning, when i opened the monitor everything was slow and the CPU was very high. I tried to quite some apps, but couldn't. "Force quit" didn't work either.
Whatever I did, the "small pie" kept turning and turning.
I finally shut down with the power button, and when I tried to reboot... and error message said that there was no bootable drive.
Then I tried to boot with my Super Duper clone on a USB drive... didn't work, still "no bootable drive".
I also tried with a bootable recovery USB key (used with success a few weeks ago to recover a broken Sierra).
In the bios boot menu, I couldnt't see any of my drives (M.2, internal SSD and USB HDD).
Finally, the only thing that worked was to reset the bios to it's default options and to install a Linux distribution. I installed it on the internal SSD, keeping my M.2 drive in case I could recover it later (and reinstall my home folder on the SSD from a backup).
Today I took a look at my Super Duper clone on the USB HDD, and it contains an EFI-Backups folder. The most recent is r4359, dated January 27.
I wonder if I could use this backup to recover (fix) my bootable M.2 drive (the one with the OS), but I have no idea how to proceeed. Any suggestion would be appreciated...