you may want to compress the image to save some space on the backup disk. In the menu bar select File > New Image > Image from “mydisk”.Select the Disk that you want to back up.
Method B – If you want to make a full backup: This will copy all files and subfolders of rescueme onto your backup drive called mybackupdisk. For instance, if you have a folder rescueme on your desktop, you can use the following command:Ĭp -r /Volumes/mydisk/Users/myusername/Desktop/rescueme /Volumes/mybackupdisk/ Go to the menu bar and select Terminal.Ĭopy the files you want to rescue using cp.
Method A – If you want to save individual files: The advantage is that there is no stress on the faulty disk. This loads the recovery mode from the internet, which will be very slow.
I am able to boot into Recovery Mode, and I can even run Disk Utility (it doesn't detect any problems.) However, when I attempt to reinstall the OS, it tells me: The progress bar would take forever to reach 100%, and then it would just stop there once it reached it all the while the fan running loudly. Out of the blue, my iMac (late 2010, running El Capitan) started refusing to boot.