<div>One of the very nice things you can do with two macs, is if one mac is having hard drive problems, you can use a firewire cable to connect it as a slave drive to another mac. Using the good mac's operating system, you can run disk utils on the questionable drive and get a full status report on it.
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<div>My mac never ceases to amaze me at the things I can do with it that are not only possible, but easy.</div>
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<div>But I still like linux for a lot of things. (Had to keep my love for mac appropriate to the list I'm on)</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI</b> <<a href="mailto:dmagnuszewski@mandtbank.com">dmagnuszewski@mandtbank.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">There is actually a restore utility on the OS X install disk. From what<br>I gather (being a relative Mac newbie) is that the restore (which does a
<br>repair of files and file permissions) will wipe out all OS related data<br>and reinstall *just* the OS. This leaves your data unaffected - for the<br>most part. All of my applications, data files, desktop, etc, are the
<br>same and untouched. Apparently there are certain things, like the<br>Developer Tools, header files, and Perl modules, that do get removed -<br>and there was my problem. I reinstalled the developer tools, and I am<br>back to normal and able to install all the modules I need.
<br><br>Thanks for the help.<br><br>-Dan<br><br>>>> <a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a> 02/14/06 9:08 PM >>><br>ptgoodman wrote:<br>> Hi Daniel,<br>><br>> The only times I've had my Macs simply refuse to boot ( once with the
<br><br>> Classic OS with Power Computing 604e system and once under OS X and a<br><br>> G4 Power Mac) ), the system disk turned out to be bad. Both systems<br>> would boot sometimes, sometimes not. The OS X system is extremely
<br>> robust. I know this will be painful, but I would suggest a complete<br>> reformatting of the system disk, mapping out bad blocks. It may turn<br><br>> out that the disk has to many bad blocks allow reformatting.
<br>> Alternately, you could get Norton Ultilities or Alsoft Diskwarrior to<br><br>> check the disk for problems. If the hardware test check out, then<br>it's<br>> a hardware problem. If you can get the Mac to boot at all, before
<br>> trying the above, you might run Disk Utility under<br>> Applications/Utilities, checking the S.M.A.R.T. Status---that can<br>tell<br>> you if the disk is starting to fail. Long shot, but desperate time<br>> call for desperate measures.
<br>><br>> Good luck,<br>><br>> pete<br>><br>><br>> DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:<br>><br>>> All,<br>>><br>>> Although this is an OS X question, its still a *nix question ;-)<br>>>
<br>>> Recently, my Mac decided that it wasn't going to boot up, and<br>wasn't<br>>> getting past the grey apple/spinning gear screen. I called Apple<br>support<br>>> and after a series of random attempts to get it to boot, they
<br>advised me<br>>> to do a restore of the OS with the install CD. I was running<br>version<br>>> 10.3.9, and my install CD was version 10.3.7. So I did a system<br>restore,<br>>> then upgraded to 10.3.8
, then to 10.3.9 and installed the updates.<br>All<br>>> my data and applications were available and running no problem.<br>Last<br>>> night I tried installing some Perl modules, and I got an error<br>saying<br>
>> that it could not find the file "perl.h" within the<br>$PERL_LIB/.../CORE/<br>>> directory. The file didn't exist in the directory, but when I did a<br>>> locate for perl.h it said that it was in the /System Restore
<br>>> 1/$PERL_LIB/.../CORE directory. The file was not in this directory<br>>> either. In addition to this, the system could not find any of my<br>make<br>>> programs.<br>>><br>>> Has anyone ever run into this problem before, or know why this
<br>would<br>>> happen after the system restore?<br>>> Thanks!<br>>><br>>> -Dan<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">
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