That's what I eventually did with the internal drive... I've been
holding on to the firewire in hope that someone else somewhere had a
solution... : (
For those who wonder why I get stubborn about these things and don't
just wipe it the first time, like all the PC techs I know... way back
in the 80's when I started using Macs, I discovered that unlike
DOS/Windows, with their nonsensical file systems, the Mac system was
laid out in an organized fashion... and you if you learned how it
worked, you could fix most things yourself... you could move your
system intact from one machine to another in less time than it took to
reinstall everything and you could usually find/replace the offending
files without trashing the whole thing.... but now that we are on a
hybrid UNIX system with multiple anti-file-copy prevention schemes...
doing even simple diagnostics is a pain!
Sandra Ragan
www.plumdigital.com
On Jan 19, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 19/01/06 14:23, "sandra ragan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry but that I tried that and it didn't work... several times in
several ways... some of the backups I saved are from that procedure.
somewhere I read that not ALL the critical files are reinstalled
during
that procedure.... and it must be those files causing the problem.
TechToolps Pro, Disk Warrior, repair permissions, and PRAM resetting
were also run on these drives and eventually came up clean.... but
the
core problem still existed.
I ran into some problems reinstalling because the drives had been
updated with System Update and the installer couldn't write over that
version... when it did, the System Update would still freeze, so I
couldn't take get back to 10.3.9, where I started.
Then, I'm afraid you'll have to backup your documents in your account
and
then do a format and reinstall. I don't see any other solution if
Archive &
Install won't work.
-Laurent.
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