> Just to complicate matters, after I downloaded 10.4.11 update and rebooted, the computer is now stuck at the "Starting Mac OSX..." screen and won't move on from a full blue status bar. I force quit and tried again - same thing.
>Take the bootable duplicate you have on external drive and boot from >it. Then run Disk Utility. Select the internal hard drive, select >Erase, click Security Options, make sure Zero or 7-pass is selected, >then click OK, then click Erase. If this is a large drive, go watch a >movie or take a nap, it will be a while. > >When that is all done, use Super Duper to clone your bootable >external (the one you are booted on), back to the internal hard drive. I didn't explain this very well. I think I did zero completely. What I didn't do properly is BACKUP before I erased the internal. I no longer have a bootable "Desktop" copy. (Have bootable Laptop on its own partition but it being a 20 mg HD, has only bare essentials on it - does not resemble in the slightest Desktop copy.) The desktop partition on my external now only contains User folders. [I was only able to figure this out by booting into the Laptop partition and looking at my Desktop partition - after the fact. Way, way too late.] So, now I have a newly installed 10.4.11 on my actual desktop harddrive. And a User folder in the Desktop partition on my external. But the computer is hanging. 1) How do I get it to stop hanging? 2) Can I copy some or all of this User folder onto the internal drive once I get it to stop hanging? Sorry. Tannis ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
