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I have a MacBook booting to Recovery and the Disk Utility is showing Zero KB free with 100% of the used data being categorised as Other.
I have tried First Aid on the drive itself and it says the repair operations are successful, but the partition on the drive is named "Untitled" and greyed out (cannot select First Aid on it).
Any ideas please?
(Mac OS X El Capitan)
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You'll need to boot up with an external OS-X bootable drive and redo the drives format as the partition table is corrupted.
As you didn't tell us what your model is you may need to replace the drive and/or the drive's cable here if the system still can't gain access to the other partition.
I've corrected your system info.
As to the drive, you'll need to delete the partition and reformat it and then create a fresh partition. If that doesn't work, its time for a new drive.
You do need to be careful here as this systems drive port is only SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) so what ever drive you replace it with will need to run at this speed.
I would either go with a hybrid drive like a Seagate Laptop SSHD (32 GB NAND version being the better choice). Or going with a SSD while more expensive per GB they do handle bangs much better than a traditional HD or SSHD. Here I would go with a Samsung 850 EVO (500 GB) Both of these drives support SATA II systems.
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Thanks, your answer was my plan B as there is recent data that hasn't been backed up and recovery was my favoured option.
I am now running data recovery software on the drive from another Mac.
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I've run a repair on the partition using external OS X boot drive and it keeps finding "Volume header needs minor repair", it keeps rechecking and finding this.
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