yup, doesn't look like archive and install is gonna be a choice here because the leopard installer doesn't even give me macintosh hd as an option to install onto. ugh!
I guess I'm gonna have to stump up the cash for disk warrior from somewhere. Tim, the accessibility issues you mentioned, was that using version 4 out of interest? I can get a set of eyes on this over christmas if needs be, but it pains me to put down that much cash for software that I can't use. If it's the only way, so be it. Cheers Scott On 12/24/08, David Poehlman <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, I remember, when this happened to my macbook, I could not install > at all. > > On Dec 24, 2008, at 10:25 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > > also, remember that if you perform an archive and install, your data > will not be lost. > > On Dec 24, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > Hi David - this all sounds like its worth a shot. I'm a complete > terminal rookie though, so is there any chance you could mail me over > the commands I'd need to mount disks and move files? Archive and > install is something I haven't tried yet, I guess I could use that to > archive to my external hd and work on getting the data out once the > mbp is back up and running right? > > cheers > Scott > > On 12/24/08, David Poehlman <[email protected]> > wrote: >> if you can get the hd mounted from terminal, you should be able to >> move the data. Then, it should be possible to do an erace-install. >> it might even be possible to do an archive and install by booting from >> the leopard dvd. >> >> On Dec 24, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: >> >> Hey folks, I have here one very unhappy macbook pro, hopefully someone >> on here has ideas that I haven't yet tried to get him back on his >> feet. >> >> So the other day, I boot the mbp up, get the usual chime sound, the >> apple logo comes up, stays there for a minute or so, and the mbp turns >> straight back off. "not good" says I. I can't think of anything I've >> installed or changed lately to cause this. I've tried holding option >> and forcing it to boot from macintosh HD with the same result, holding >> shift key for safe mode with the same result, holding s for single >> user mode with - you guessed it - the same result. I've booted from >> my Leopard DVD and tried varifying and repairing the volume from Disk >> Utility there. In both cases, I get an error that says "filesystem >> varify or repair failed", and ocasionally I get a "the underlying task >> has failed" instead... uh oh! Some frantic Googling later, I found >> myself in terminal trying to repair the volume with fsck_hfs because >> it seems some folks have had more luck this way, but no joy. Terminal >> does give me messages about an invalid sibbling link though sometimes, >> which while it isn't what I want to hear, at least it's something a >> bit more specific. >> >> If anyone has any thoughts, they'd be so worth a shot. I've got 100 >> GB or so of data on this thing that isn't backed up (yep, apparently I >> can be that stupid). I have space on an external drive that I just >> picked up, if I can only figure out a way to get the data off and go >> for a clean install. >> >> TIA >> Scott >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > >
