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So had a look at swapping the SATA for SSD tonight. Tried Carbon Copy but it kept failing so ran disk utility from recovery and it failed to "fix". Now mac wont boot, so tried fsck from single user - no luck, with i/o error
I now have a) an internal drive thats on its very last legs and wont boot, b) a blank ssd, c) a time machine usb drive.
Mrs cookiemonster needs this for work so I'm looking to hand the whole thing over to someone else first thing tomorrow who can pull out the internal disk, mount it somewhere and see if they can pull data off it, install macos onto the SSD, copy the data over from sata or time machine, etc.
Recommendations for speedy Mac repair work? Need someone that can do some data recovery I guess, not just fix iphone screens. I live near these guys http://www.mindthemac.co.uk/ but know nothing about them