Crimbo - A slapdash abreviation of Christmas. Gets used a lot in London, and I've heard lots of Aussies saying it this year, but perhaps it's only known on this side of the pond.
For anyone who was following this, a combination of Jacob's terminal stuff, a new install onto an external drive to keep me going in the meantime, and importing network settings etc has saved my bacon. I now have 2 copies of all that data. Cheers all! Order of the day tomorrow is to figure out an unattended boot camp install... I think it should be doable as long as you write into the answer file which partition you want to install onto. Cheers Scott On 12/26/08, David Poehlman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > >
