On Feb 13, 2010, at 11:50 PM, steve roche wrote:
I'm going to FireWire my other iBook (10.4.1) onto it, hoping it
will repair the Hard drive
glitches. Is this a bad idea?
No, this is a good idea. First, why is the "other" iBook at 10.4.1?
(I'm guessing this is a typo, you meant 10.4.11 hopefully?) If it's
10.4.1 FIRST update the "other" iBook to 10.4.11. THEN boot the
problem iBook into Target Disk Mode and attach to the "other" iBook
and run Disk Utility>Repair Disk and Repair Permissions on the problem
iBook. If it checks out OK, THEN eject the problem iBook and reboot
HOLDING the Shift key for "Safe Boot". This will dump all the boot
caches and reset everything, and IF it boots normally in Safe Boot,
then restart again and hopefully it's OK now. Try Software Update
again, hopefully it now works?
If it fails in mid-Clone, I may lose both machines?
I didn't see anything about cloning, but if you're planning on cloning
your "other" iBook over to the "problem" iBook there's little or no
chance you can lose both machines. The only problem is that you'll
lose all the data on the problem iBook unless you can transfer it off
before cloning. I'd try repairing first, and only clone as a last
resort.
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