HEEELP!! back from vacation and It doesn't work anymore...and I have lots of stuff to save!!

[rockappalla]

Hi,
I'm back from vacation and my Hackintosh doesn't boot anymore,
here's a pic of what I'm getting...what can I do? I have a lots of songs already recorded in Logic with my band and don't wanna loose them!!

 

[Going Bald]

Still have your UniBeast USB installer? Boot with it.
Have a bootable clone backup? You can boot with it.

 

[rockappalla]

Still have your UniBeast USB installer? Boot with it.
Have a bootable clone backup? You can boot with it.

With USB I can boot but only to make a new installation, and I can't choose the OSX hard drive as a bootable device...I only see USB and the Windows hard disk as bootable...

If I buy another Hard drive and make a fresh installation, will I be able to recover data from the other OSX hard drive? (I can see it in disk utility)

 

[MDL]

Boot with unibeast. Repair your HDD with apple disk utilities.

Good luck!

 

[rockappalla]

Boot with unibeast. Repair your HDD with apple disk utilities.

Good luck!

i tried this today but it didn't work...I also updated the BIOS to F11...still getting that message...It's like the hard drive isn't being recognised...

 

[rockappalla]

Hi everybody,
Today I received a new hard disk and made a fresh installation,
I had to set the HDD to GUID because the installation utility only let me install with a GUID drive, not Masterboot (or whatever it's called)...
then I booted from the Hard drive and everything worked, audio, ethernet and everything...than I ran Multibeast to make the drive bootable and after the intial spinning wheel with the apple logo the screen turned black...

Then made a fresh installation and everything worked again (but the boot)...I tried to connect the old hard drive that I have to backup to save all my work but OSX gives me an error message, It' cant't acces the drive...
I tried to repair it and it gives back a very long list of red messages...Is the drive gone or I can still have hopes to save the data in some way?

How can I make the new drive bootable through Multibeast?

Thanks everybody for the help!

 

[Khan]

I tried to repair it and it gives back a very long list of red messages...Is the drive gone or I can still have hopes to save the data in some way?

Sounds like the HDD is gone. Did you check the cables?

How can I make the new drive bootable through Multibeast?

How did you do the original install. You need to know your specs to know what to install with Multi Beast.

 

[rockappalla]

Yes, the cables are ok, but I don't really know what I'm doing...I just made the new installation with a USB stick I made...and it install directly mountain lion, I don't have a snow leopard DVD...

 

[Khan]

How did you make your USB stick?

 

[rockappalla]

I used the guide on here...but I don't really remember how did I do lol
But the installation works smooth and it directly installs 10.8