On 9 Aug 2005, at 13:29, Joe B. wrote:
I can try to reinstall OS X (Tiger) from the Cds ( I did the media
exchange as my machine has no DVD drive). But I'm wondering if this
is going to be enough; maybe the volume structure problems mean I
need to dig a bit deeper first and reinitialise the OS X partition
first (assuming this is in fact possible). This is the first time I
ever got this problem so at this point my experience runs out!
Is reinstalling OS X the thing to try first?
It probably is now! When you do reinstall try first with the 'archive-
and-install' option. This will preserve all you own files,
applications, etc. If that doesn't work try a clean reinstall and
only if that fails should you consider erasing the HD.
My internal hard drive has three partitions, OS 9 (which I am using
now), OS X, which won't boot up, and Data. I created these
partitions in case of terminal problems developing with one
partition as seems to have happened here, but I'm not sure what
needs to be done to solve it now.
On the other hand you could take this opportunity to re-partition
your drive to a single partition. There is normally no benefit in
partitioning with OS X and several reasons why it's a bad idea. OS X
will be happiest with the largest amount of free space possible and
you don't need to put OS 9 on its own partition either - you'll still
be able to boot into OS 9 if it's on the same one as OS X.
FWIW the only third party disk utility I'd use with OS X is Disk
Warrior.
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Roger Houghton
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