Jacob - great stuff, thanks for all that man, I'll get on it as soon as I get home, it's gotta be worth a shot before I buy disk warrior. That quote in your sig is ringing true particularly today... new years resolution to backup is in order I think!
Scott On 12/24/08, Scott Chesworth <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
