[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Help my MacBook Air

[Alice Meade]

Hi everyone,


I have a big problem. I have a MacBook Air and an external Western Digital drive for Time Machine Back ups. It was working fine but then it stopped backing up. I called Apple and spoke to a senior adviser. He was able to get me to login to Safe Mode and I was able to create a back up of my machine. The next day it tried to back up but was very, very slow. I called the same technician back and he said “OK, let’s erase your hard drive and then we can do a restore from the Western Digital drive. I unfortunately said “OK”. We did this but when I tried to restore from the external drive, my computer said it didn’t recognize it!!! Yikes!!! I have been on the phone with multiple Apple people. I have a call with with the Western Digital people later today but I also contacted a Data Recovery service (based on my problem with my old hard drive). 

They asked me to bring the MacBook Air and the Western Digital drive into them. I was going to do that later today unless you think I should do something else.

Thanks!!!!
Alice


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