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    I need help dealing with Exit Code 8

    I'm aware that others have posted similar question, but for some reason I didn't see any practical answers. I hope that I could get some help here. I am using a Western Digital 2TB with 2 partitions. One partition started to show some sign that it was going to fail. Sure enough I was not able...
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    2012 MBP Stuck on macOS 10.10 Update

    Hello All, I'm running a 500GB Crucial SSD, half dedicated to IOS and half to Win 7. I tried updating my OS to 10.10 without backing anything up unfortunately, and now the IOS partition is stuck in an unmounted state and can't be repaired (exit code 8 every time). I tried making a bootable...
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    Start Up Issues

    Hi, My macbook pro has been acting up. It will allow me to log in, but will fail and shut down halfway through logging in. Single user mode (trying to use fsck -fy) showed that "The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely. Disk utility & disk verification is being a tad vague. It...