One thing I discovered the other day (via a very helpful post from another fantastic user here), the Repair Permissions via Disk Utility only does that for Apple products. Most likely, you have only one visible partition on that drive, and it would be the one containing the OS, all your software, data files, etc. Verify and Repair Permissions, and Verify and Repair the disk at the partition level. ![]() Verify and Repair the iMac's drive at the Volume level (the "top" level).Ģ. What you'll need to do with Disk Utility is:ġ. If you only have Disk Utility as the disk maintenance/repair program, that should be enough. From there, you can use whatever disk maintenance/repair/software "repair", etc. ![]() You will know when step 3 completes, as the internal hard drive for the problematic iMac will show up on the 13" MacBook Pro's desktop. Start up the problematic iMac, holding down the T key only as soon as you press the power button. Boot the 13" MacBook Pro, and wait until it completes the boot process, that is, gets to the Finder/desktop.ģ. With both machines off, connect the Thunderbolt cable to the respective Thunderbolt ports.Ģ. Secondly, here are the steps again, with corrections:ġ. Need a correction, and I'll re-state the steps above clearly (without any of my typing "snafus"!).įirst of all, it's great you have a late 2011 13" Macbook Pro, as that has a Thunderbolt port also.
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