![]() You'll need at the very least the command mv or cp and you'll likely want to preface these with sudo.įinally, you could always reinstall once the drive is out or, or install a new copy onto a usb drive, assuming the HDD is out, then plug the HDD back in once you've booted up, and work from my first suggestion. Have Your Mac Powered On And Your Two Drives Plugged Into. How to Mount an External Hard Drive on Mac. Select Restore from the top options and select your external hard drive as a source Select your Mac’s hard drive as the destination Click Restore. I'm not going to give you a crash course on Terminal here, but look at This. Hold down Command + R while your Mac is restarting to bring up the startup options screen. Now you should be able to go in and edit the files on the HDD you took out that is now plugged in externally, FireWire or USB, by using the Terminal program to turn USB back on (by undoing whatever you did). Plug in mouse/keyboard, wait for command prompt. Turn on iMac and immediately insert the original install disc or a retail install disc that is not older than the system software that shipped with your computer. Put HDD into external enclosure/dock/adapter If you have another computer on the same network, or you can physically connect another computer by firewire or Ethernet, and you have file sharing turned on, or screen sharing turned on, you can a) take control using screen sharing and use the other computer's mouse/kb, or go into the filesystem of your iMac from this connected machine and (i imagine you moved a kernel extension, possibly IOUSBFamily.kext?) restore/replace the files you altered. If you can't boot into Safe Mode OR Single-User Mode: ![]()
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