On Aug 28, 2005, Harry Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 28, 2005, at 5:10 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
B&W G3/300 Rev 1
OS9.2.2
Today I was doing a search on my G3 for an item, and unchecked the
second HD before entering the file name.
Later I noticed that the second (9.1gb) HD icon was missing from the
desktop, which was a bit annoying, as I wanted to change it to the
startup drive. It has OS10.2.8 on it, which I need to access PayPal to
make a payment.
When I tried Apple Syatem Profiler I saw that second HD was there but
not mounted. When I click on the ID=2 arrow (the 9.1gb HD) it tells me
that there are no partitions, and the right box has no drive icon.
Right above is the current startup HD icon in the ID=1 location.
Neither TechTool Light nor Disk First Aid were of any help, and
neither had the 9.1gb HD as an option. Zapping the PRAM and rebuilding
the desktop didn't reinstate the HD.
1. Reboot your platform from the "OS X" CD, however during the boot
reset the "PRAM" by hold down the Command, Option, "P" and "R" keys
during start-up and keep holding them down until you hear the star-up
"Bong" at least 3 times.
2. Once you have you platform up and running from the CD, start the
"Disk Utility" application that is located on the CD not one that is
located on one of your hard drives.
3. From within the disk utility application select the problem disk and
then run the "Repair Disk Permissions"
4. When that is completed repeat the same procedure for all of the
HDD's that are contained within your platform.
This is a recommend procedure that should be done at least once a month
if your platform is in constance use. You can run the same procedure
from within the HDD when the HDD is the home disk, however it can not
do a complete job because the disk is in use. Therefor running "Repair
Disk" is recommended from the "CD"
I'm afraid there is confusion here between repairing disk and repairing
disk permissions. These are quite different things.
Repair Disk: Using Disk Utility's First Aid to repair disk may or may
not work. And this is where other tools such as DiskWarrior and
TechTools Pro come into the picture. And you cannot repair the disk
that is in use, so doing this from the CD or another hard drive is
indeed best.
Repair Disk Permissions: However, this is not done in First Aid. Disk
Utility has this process in its main window. It has to do with a very
limited type of file. As indicated at Apple's tech article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
repairing disk permissions has to do with applications packages
installed by Apple and by yourself. If you run Repair Disk Permissions
from your CD, the CD knows nothing about the software installed on your
Mac after the OS was installed. Therefore, one should always run
Repair Disk Permissions from the copy of Disk Utility that is available
to run on the active hard drive.
Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
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