on 2/10/05 1:31 PM, Greg Pennefather at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Go to the Alsoft web site and log a fault report. I did this and they got > back to me pretty quickly. I had a similar problem but booting from an > external FW DVD drive. My problem was that the DW CD probably didn't have > drivers for my DVD player (LaCie) and yours might be similar although I > would have thought DW would have drivers for all Apple internal drives. > > If you have another Mac (sounds like you do) and a FW cable, start the iBook > up in target disk mode (hold down the T key while booting until the FW > symbol appears on the screen) and plug into the other Mac. Then install DW > on the other Mac and check the iBook disk from there. Worked a treat for > me. > Hi Greg & James, I tried the laptop with all external devices disconnected with no luck. Finally did what Greg suggested - booted the iBook in target disk mode and ran DiskWarrior successfully. Many thanks for the help guys. And yes Greg, I'll report this problem to Alsoft. I'm sure they will come up with a good solution. I've been using their products since first hearing of DW from Peter H many years ago, and am impressed by their utilities. As a matter of interest, whilst I had the iBook in target mode I scanned the whole hard disc with the copy of Virex 7.5 I have on the G5. Virex found a trojan as follows: avapi/v1.0/jar/javainstaller.jar-3cc46f89-69488aeb.zip/INSTALLERAPPLET.CLASS Found the Generic Downloader.v trojan! McAffee¹s site had very little to say about this trojan except that it is not of great importance. This is my first virus/trojan on our Macs for many years. For some reasons Virex reported not being able to remove the trojan, and there was no instructions on McAffee¹s site on how to remove it manually. I eventually removed the whole javainstaller.jar-3cc46f89 ............. , and so far this did not seem to have broken anything fingers crossed! My thanks again for the replies and help. Regards, Philippe
