Using OS X software solution. Got out of the shower yesterday and heard the fans on my tower SCREAMING loud and had an error message something to the effect of 'Push and hold the power button down until the system shuts down'. Did that, now it won't boot. I get to the screen with the lines that go in a circle but never gets to the boot screen.
Booted with Recovery/Diag DVD. Disk utility sees both drives (2, 250GB SATA) but all options for Repair Permissions and Fix/Repair disk are greyed out. I think I normally also see one larger disk (the RAID, I think it's 465 GB) but it's not there. Ran Diagnostics and everything passed.
Boot while holding Option. Given 4 choices - Recovery DVD, Disk 1, Disk 2, Network boot. Neither Disk 1 or 2 have an OS because they are RAIDed together (right?).
So it's looking like format and start over unless there is some command line command that can possibly fix this. If not, is there a way to recover any files? I'm really just looking for my Entourage database for several emails that came in the last couple of days.
And my new/used iBook of 2 months just died two weeks ago.
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