Boot drive problems

[Erik Saline]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

>
> On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:09 AM, R.L. Grigg wrote:
>
>> I forgot we had the Intel version of DiskWarrior! I ran it twice.  
>> The first time it found lots of stuff but still wouldn't boot, so  
>> I ran it again and it found nothing and still doesn't boot OSX,  
>> just XP. I guess it must be some bad physical problem with the  
>> drive. Ill look into Data Rescue II.
>
> Actually, it may have fixed the directory problems, but you have a  
> critical system file that's just jacked up, either corrupted or  
> maybe on a bad sector. So it might still be worthwhile  
> repartitioning and starting completely from scratch. But yeah if it  
> gives you a hard time, don't trust it.
>

If you happen to have a 2nd Mac around you can boot up your Mac Book  
in Target Disk Mode.

Connect your Mac Book to the 2nd Mac using Firewire and boot you Mac  
Book into Target Disk mode by holding down the T key during boot up.   
Your Mac book will show up as 2nd HD on the 2nd Mac.

I have been luck sometime where I cannot boot the computer, but  
Target Disk mode will let me copy off of the bad drive.


Erik


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