on 3/10/05 7:22 PM, James Devenish at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:00:31PM +0800, J Philippe Chaperon wrote: >> I tried the laptop with all external devices disconnected with no luck. > ... >> I'll report this problem to Alsoft. I'm sure they will come up with a >> good solution. > > My first though is that your CD is a tad older than the laptop, so it is > not capable of booting the hardware adequately. You will probably need a > revised copy of the DiskWarrior disk (if you want to be able to boot the > laptop with the CD in future). I have found that Alsoft only distributes > these new startup disks as physical CDs (i.e., with a shipping fee) > because they are not licensed to offer the startup disks via the > Internet. >
Hi James, Thanks for the above information. I have just received an answer to my query to Alsoft and they have confirmed what you mentioned, the version of the OS on my DW CD is too old to boot the laptops. So will have to order a copy from Daniel soon. The strange thing though is that my G5 has no problem to boot from the CD. I guess the hardware/firmware (??) plays an important part in determining which version of the OS can run on the particular machine. Regards, Philippe
