Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-31 Thread sacear3
Subject: Re: Erasing hard drive I too, have used Panther on my Pismo since it came out up to 10.3.6 and has worked flawlessly. Prior to that I was using Jaguar from its introduction to 10.2.8 and it also worked flawlessly. So maybe the drive? Scott Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:14:34 -0500

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-30 Thread Dean
Does Panther have a disk corruption issue? I installed 10.3 and updates (at the time) on a pismo. Worked fine for 2 weeks then one day I got the wonderful question mark. I started up from the CD and tried to repair disk permissions, but disk first aid could not find an install to repair. So I

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-30 Thread Amber
On 1/30/05 10:03 AM, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Panther have a disk corruption issue? I installed 10.3 and updates (at the time) on a pismo. Worked fine for 2 weeks then one day I got the wonderful question mark. I started up from the CD and tried to repair disk permissions, but disk

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/30/05 1:03 PM, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Panther have a disk corruption issue? I installed 10.3 and updates (at the time) on a pismo. Worked fine for 2 weeks then one day I got the wonderful question mark. I started up from the CD and tried to repair disk permissions, but disk

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-30 Thread John
Dean wrote: Does Panther have a disk corruption issue? I installed 10.3 and updates (at the time) on a pismo. Worked fine for 2 weeks then one day I got the wonderful question mark. I started up from the CD and tried to repair disk permissions, but disk first aid could not find an install to

Erasing hard drive with two partitions

2005-01-30 Thread Lowell Neudeck
I have an iBook 800 with OS 10.2 on it. I have an external firewire drive which I originally formatted with two partitions. I would like to reformat the external drive to one partition only. How do I do that? TIA Lowell -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Erasing hard drive with two partitions

2005-01-30 Thread Jacob
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:12:48 -0700, Lowell Neudeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an iBook 800 with OS 10.2 on it. I have an external firewire drive which I originally formatted with two partitions. I would like to reformat the external drive to one partition only. How do I do that? TIA

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-30 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 30/01/05 13:39, Amber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/30/05 10:03 AM, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Panther have a disk corruption issue? I installed 10.3 and updates (at the time) on a pismo. Worked fine for 2 weeks then one day I got the wonderful question mark. I started up

Erasing hard drive

2005-01-29 Thread Amber
After a week of finding various firewire drives to back my hard drive up to, I am finally ready to erase my hard drive and hope that all the problems I have been having with the PB will disappear. Just wondering - would you guys suggest that I zero all data and start from scratch or would a

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/01/05 23:16, Amber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a week of finding various firewire drives to back my hard drive up to, I am finally ready to erase my hard drive and hope that all the problems I have been having with the PB will disappear. Just wondering - would you guys suggest

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-29 Thread Amber
On 1/29/05 8:25 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering - would you guys suggest that I zero all data and start from scratch or would a normal erase likely resolve the software problems... You don't need to do a zero all data. Just a standard erase in Disk Utility

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 29, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Amber wrote: On 1/29/05 8:25 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering - would you guys suggest that I zero all data and start from scratch or would a normal erase likely resolve the software problems... You don't need to do a zero all data.

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 29, 2005, at 8:16 PM, Amber wrote: After a week of finding various firewire drives to back my hard drive up to, I am finally ready to erase my hard drive and hope that all the problems I have been having with the PB will disappear. Just wondering - would you guys suggest that I zero all

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-29 Thread Amber
On 1/29/05 9:09 PM, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amber, Food for thought: I too was having problems with one of my PB's and decided to try something: I installed OS X Panther on my external Firewire drive; the drive that was meant to simply back up all of my data so I could