----------------------On Apr 8, 2004, at 6:47 PM, James Morgan wrote:
We have a mirror door G4 running OS 9.2.2 and 10.2.8 that will no longer start up since we ran Tech Tool Pro Drive 10 on it. It just sits at the blinking question mark. It will start up from the Install # 1 CD that came with it and from the Disk Warrior CD.
I have Drive 10 and it never gave me this hassle. There are rare cases when the drive is having problems and the disk utils make things *worse* rather than better because of the extent of the corruption.
I'm thinking that Drive 10 must have damaged the system folder on OS 9.2.2? And, if so, if we run the software restore CD's that came with the G4, will it erase our data?
At this stage in the game anything is possible. However, it does seem strange that it "disabled" both OS 9 and OS X. That era restore disks will erase the drive.
In the old days I would have just done a clean install to get a new system folder but this G4 won't start up from the OS 9.2 CD, only from the Install #1, from which one can only reinstall.
Anyone have any suggestions on where to go from here?
You could try an "archive and install" of OS X. If you boot to the OS X CD can you see the drive? If so, will it let you install X on it? The archive and install is like a "clean" install in OS 9. That should get you up and running assuming no problems with the drive on the hardware front.
Interesting followup........The G4 would boot from the Disk Warrior CD so I ran Disk Warrior and it found damaged header blocks (or something of that sort, I forget now), damaged directories, and Disk Warrior said it could (1) fix the header blocks, (2) fix the directories, and (3) allow me to choose a system folder. I gave it the OK and it fixed them. Then I chose the system folder (which was the one that was unblessed) and the computer started right up.
I gotta say Disk Warrior saved the day. I don't know if it was Drive 10 that damaged the software on this G4 (I wasn't there when they ran Drive 10) but I know it was either Drive 10 or operator error. And I didn't know Disk Warrior could bless a system folder.
The only thing we lost were the mailing lists (we have two accounts) in Outlook Express, which were corrupted. But I drug one old mailing list to the trash, OE replaced it upon restart with a good one, and all the addresses were in it. How does it do that? Thank You Bill Gates?
Many thanks to all who replied on the list. This is a great list here! Maybe I'll just thank the list instead of thanking Bill!
-- James K Morgan
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