I have a curiosity question for everyone on this list about maintaining
unsupported OS X Macs. About every 3 or 4 months one of my unsupported
Macs goes down and I end up having to reinstall the OS X System
Software. This is a real pain especially in my Power Macintosh 8500s as
I have to take them all apart and swap the CD burner for a high speed
Apple Drive to reinstall the OS X software. I know there are two keys
to solving this problem: 1. Backing up and 2. A good disk repair
utility. Both of these keys present problems in and of themselves. On
the back up side I only know of one piece of software that might work
with an unsupported OS X System install, Carbon Copy Cloner. I was
hoping SuperDuper might work but when I emailed the author he stated he
wasn't too sure about that and that even if it would it would probably
take the help of the Carbon Copy Cloner software to get the clone copy
to boot. The Dantz, Retrospect web site states that Retrospect won't
see all of the invisible files of an unsupported install. So my first
question is what is everyone using to back up an unsupported OS X
install? Then comes the problem of a disk utility. First off, I find
the Apple Disk Utility about useless and it won't work on a boot volume
anyway. I have also found its unix cousin about the same as well as a
little dangerous as I have come out with more problems than I started
with after using it. I have tries Norton Disk Utilities but find it hit
and miss and more miss than hit. I have just ordered DiskWarrior and
can't wait to try that. All of these utilities on CD though have an
inherent problem that I haven't figured out a way around. None of them
will boot up the computer from the CD to repair it because to start our
systems you need a "hacked"system. My second question then is what disk
repair utility are you using and what version? Then part two of that
question is how are you booting from it so that you can repair you boot
drive? Thank you in advance for all of your help and suggestions.
Bob K.
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