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Xmove help needed

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i7-950
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RX 580
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It seems that one of my children has run Xmove on my Main drive.

When I boot my drive now it boots to what looks like a Installer screen with limited options.

Startup Disk > Restart and Shutdown.

On this screen you can also see my startup items trying to load but they don't have permissions to write to the drive.

If i try to select anything then i just get the apple spinning wheel :beachball: .

Can anyone help me rescue this drive? Its running the latest 10.7.2. I do have a back up but its not up to date, i've only been testing the Apple updates on it before I've updated my main drive. So it does contain 10.7.2 but my user files haven't really changed since Snow Leopard.

Thanks
 
Thanks for quick reply I'll have a look at this when i get back home from work.

i did try to install over my drive from the installer and from my backup using the 10.7.2 combo update but they didn't change anything.

I'll have a look at the disk utility later though. Thanks.
 
The best option for me was to run software update on my backup drive and then use Migration Assistant. This copied over my user directory /applications directory and prefs. Then I used Super Duper to Clone my drive.

I forgot Migration Assistant was so useful.
 
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