glad to see that techtool deluxe helped.
what is crimbo?
On Dec 24, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
Cheers for the download link Esther. According to tech tools the hd
seems fine. The s.m.a.r.t status thingy was saying varified though in
the midst of all of this confusion, but it's reassuring to have
another tool saying things are probably ok mechanically.
Well, last few minutes of the new install to go, and this time around
time machine will be my friend, just in case.
A very merry crimbo to anyone on here who celebrates. If you see
Santa before I do, tell him that it's all malicious rumours and that
I've been a good boy this year really!
Scott
On 12/24/08, Alex Jurgensen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Aplle varifies your Serial Number.
Thanks,
Alex,
On 24-Dec-08, at 2:29 PM, Dan wrote:
Hello,
Yes you have to have the Apple Care in order to use the diagnostic
tools.
Dan
On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote:
Even though it is downloadable, do you have to be on apple care to
get it?
On Dec 24, 2008, at 3:20 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
you get it from apple care but I think it is also downloadable.
On Dec 24, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
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
