On Tirsdag, 23/11 2010, 06:09, Ashgrove wrote: > I second Thomas, but while in Target mode, and before trying to get > stuff out, I would run a repair utility like Disk Warrior. It may even > make the HDD bootable for the time you need to back up. > > You know, not doing regular backups is always a bad idea, but not > backing up a hard drive you already know is problematic is an > EXCEPTIONALLY bad idea... > > HTH, > > Felix
thanks felix and thomas was right now trying to do exactly that, and it went totally haywire at first it looked very nice the drive turned up and I thought my day was saved but then... TIME MACHINE! well, the other mac is running 10.5.8 and has never had an external disk attached before, soooo... I mistook the message and only the second time around it dawned om me that what it was trying to do was the opposite of what I wanted. well, it failed because of not enough space next mistake was to open the disk utillity and clicking on the drive (the desktop name) and it started the beach ball menawhile I poked around a bit and found the directory with the failed backup and decided to try to delete it... preparing to delete forever and ever tried stop it, tried to stop the disk utillity, tried to stop the finder ended up unplugging as nothing happened what so ever the last two times the powerbook tried to boot, I got an open firmware (or what ever) screen claiming something about memory access errors. havne't tried booting from there, just chose to shut down right now I'm trying to make a disk image from the disk util on the other mac, but it now only shows the disk with one icon and the toshiba name and although it says it's making the image, the progress bar doesn't get anywhere unfortunately the only diskwarrior app I have is for os9 oh and sure, I know about backups which is exactly why there isn't anything vital on that mac. my main workhorse (beige g3 300) has an exteranl firewire disk and a nice backup app, that makes a backup of everything that's changed everytime I shut it down thank you so far /tina -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
