Copy a failing drive to a backup using Mac Recovery If your system appears to be failing, drop down to a lower-level tool. Glenn Fleishman reports
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e don’t always know why a drive connected to a Mac starts to fail or the system becomes sluggish and nothing helps. If you’ve gone through routine troubleshooting and nothing fixes
the problem – including reinstalling macOS as a last resort – you may want to try to recover the start-up volume’s contents by booting using recoveryOS, a special partition in macOS designed for helping with what it says on the label: recovery. November 2021 • Macworld 109
