In the beginning, the powermac G5 2.3 crashed, froze and displayed something called Terminal or possibly console which made me afraid for weeks on end to walk in the room much less attempt to use the machine. Some of the applications were missing and dashboard icons were not the right ones so Apple first instructed me to perform an archive and install and then an erase and install when that didn't do the trick. After the tech walked me through that, all those problems were eliminated. He said the software was corrupted during the factory installation.
So: when things like this disk image problem happen, would the fault lie with the machine sending or receiving the files? Generally, because even now, important details might escape me, I think user error is the likely culprit. Apple techs are way too tactful to even suggest such a thing. Thanks for more instruction. Randy On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: The bit about the Apple Support suggestion to shut down the host computer as a method to eject the iBook in target disk mode makes one wonder what?if anything?was corrupted in the process. My experience is that on a personal computer you can spend more time, effort, and money troubleshooting maladies than just biting the bullet, backup, erase the HD, and reinstall the software. Aat least know what you have and whether the problem is software and not hardware related...jf On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:56 PM, R. D. Preston wrote: > Every situation can be different, but from your description, > the first thing I'd do is to fully check and defragment your > hard drive. > (Backup any/all critical files prior to this, just in case.) > > I use iDefrag by Coriolis Systems Limited; it was $30 on > their web site < http://www.coriolis-systems.com/ >. > > Regards, > Russ Preston | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
