IIRC, the last time you mentioned it you did not have the system files installed on the "good" drive. Forgive me is the question is too obvious, but you do have the system files installed there now, right?
Bill Holt On Tuesday, July 12, 2005, at 10:45 PM, Robert Klein wrote: > I took out the good drive, found a label that illustrated how to set > the > jumpers for slave, master, etc., so I changed it to Master. I > reinstalled > it, started up with Disk Warrior and, behold, it came up as a master. > I ran > a diagnostic on it and it was fine. > > Now, I still have all of the exact same problems as before. I reset > the > PRAM and NVRAM again per instructions on the Apple support pages. I > double-checked the Software Install and Tiger disks on another > computer to > make sure they were OK (they were). > > I took Mike's suggestion and did an option-startup. A blue screen > came up > with a 270-degree arrow in one box on the left and a straight arrow in > a box > on the right side. When I clicked on the left one, it appeared to > make the > optical drive run. The other button did nothing. Only when I > inserted the > DW CD did a disk icon come up (in the middle) and it was called > "utility > disk". Now, I'm thinking, I am stuck with the "expensive option." > > I have an external firewire drive that I use for backups. I can't > find a > way to make it a bootable drive without cloning it (and losing my other > data) via SuperDuper!, for example. I looked all over the Apple > discussion > boards, versiontracker, etc. > > This is a real puzzle. > > R > > > On 7/12/05 5:15 PM, "macgroup-digest" > <owner-macgroup-digest at erdos.math.louisville.edu> emailed: > >> There is probably a jumper on the drive itself that has to be changed >> from the slave to the master position. The system won't work right >> with a slave drive and no master drive on the IDE ribbon. > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 26. 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> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. 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>
