Hello All, I was working on a machine with OS X, Jaguar, and the power failed. Yes, I know about UPSs......anyhow now when I boot the machine I am presented with the dreaded flashing Mac Icon and the Question Mark of Death.......no system files on the HD. I have booted from the OS X disk and used Disk Utility to Repair the disk/volume....but no go!....the hard drive remains "grayed out". I was able to boot to the UNIX system prompt and run the disk repair utility there, but I suspect I was looking at the boot CD not the hard drive. In the DOS world of the past one could transfer the system files to a HD without formatting it, is there something like that for the Mac? Any help and/or insight anyone can offer is appreciated, or is it time to partition the drive and reinstall everything.....and I have committed the mortal sin of NOT having any backups....mia culpa. Thanks to all, Jim.
Try a PRAM zap. I've found that OS X has a habit of loosing track of the HD if something happens (like moving the drive from Master to Slave or from one IDE channel to another). Zapping the PRAM has fixed it for me.
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