Thank you! Though that's easier said than done. I'm not sure how to do all that. Do I boot up the ext HD with the option key and go from there to erase it?
I don't know how to reformat anything. When I first got the HD it was for a PC but I found out how to reformat it for a Mac. That was a long time ago and I don't remember a thing.
I should still probably get a new router because of how Amazon works with Starbucks wi-fi and TOR works as opposed to Safari and Firefox on Amazon.
So much to do! I do work 4 days a week, so I am not just sitting home like a lot of people right now.
Originally Posted By: artie505
Originally Posted By: plantsower
Is this it, the prompt? I thought there would be more info like if everything is good or not.
Last login: Fri Apr 24 11:22:29 on ttys000 MacBook-Pro:~ (my name)$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk1 of=/dev/null conv=noerror bs=5120 Password: 195345817+1 records in 195345817+1 records out 1000170586112 bytes transferred in 34736.077742 secs (28793423 bytes/sec) MacBook-Pro:~ (my name)$
That's it, Rita.
The number of records in and out being equal means that the are no bad blocks on the drive.
OK, that having been established, nobody having contributed even a wild conjecture about why Mavericks boots to a prohibited sign, and Macintosh HD having been repaired, you're ready to move on to the the upgrade if that's where you're going.
The first thing I think you ought to do, and that's under any circumstances, is completely erase your external, reformat it with a well thought out partition scheme, and then clone Macintosh HD onto it.
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