David - neat! Should techtool deluxe have come with my macbook by any chance? I do recall a few extra cds in the box, don't recall what they were.
On 12/24/08, David Poehlman <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have techtool deluxe, you can do the hardware checks accessibly. > > On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi Scott, >> You said: An update for anybody following this thread... >> >> I wanted to install Leopard on to an external drive, just so I've got >> something to boot up over Christmas... geek factor is firmly set to on >> here! Thought I'd do that before I got into toying with Terminal and >> disk warrior and suchlike. Amazingly, the setup assistant sees my old >> macintosh HD volume and from the filesizes everything looks fine. >> It's transfering over just over 100 GB as I write, which may take a >> while yes, but it looks like this might save my bacon. If this does >> work, it leads me to think that it's most likely to be something along >> the lines of volume headers being corrupted or other such stuff that I >> know nada about like Tim suggested rather than mechanical failure. >> Is that a sensible assumption? Again assuming this works, I was >> planning >>> to go for a format of the internal drive and a reinstall > > TK: Yes this process will work to save data. You can then perform a > clean install to the Macintosh HD and all header info will be replaced > and things will work as they should. The difference with this method > is that you'll need to reinstall any software that you had installed > after the fact and re-apply all Software Updates. A fair bit of work > but it does the job and is less expensive than purchasing disk > Warrior. Disk Warrior is quicker and reliable but isn't free. > > Scott: , but is there >> >> any checks I can do on top of the usual disk utility stuff to get a >> better idea of whether my hd is on its way out? > > TK: You can use Apple Hardware Test if you'd like. Place your > Leopard Install DVD in the drive and press the "d" key as the startup > chime rings. This will give a number of hardware test options > including RAM and HD but this isn't accessible either so sighted > assistance will be necessary. >> >> Later... > > Tim Kilburn > & Carter the Canine > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > > > >
