Re: [SLUG] OT: booting Mac]

From: Mike Branda (realraccoon@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jul 24 2005 - 00:12:07 EDT


On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 09:41 -0700, Andrew Barber wrote:
> Try booting off an OSX CD. At the very first screen
> with a menu bar, there should be a Tools or Utilities
> or Disk setup item in one of the menus. Basically it
> needs an fsck.
>
> Note that sometimes this does not work. If not, you
> can get a copy of DiskWarrior or reinstall.
>

We have DiskWarrior at the office. It has repaired several G4
Quicksilvers with bad tree issues. Works like a champ. Bad part is
that last I checked it costs about 99 bucks. It's the only aftermarket
Mac Disk tool I've used thats worth a darn and "actually" fixes things.

Mike Branda Jr.

> Andy
>
> > >I know this is off topic, but it's also out of my
> > league:
> > >My sister has a Mac, G4 Silver Bullet) and upon
> > last restart, she
> > >received (haha, "Aqua Screen of Death?") error
> > about "invalid B-tree
> > >node size".
> > >Now I'm not familiar with Mac's, but I know some of
> > Sluger's are. Is
> > >this something like messed up MBR? What is the best
> > (easiest) way to fix
> > >it without loss of data (very important! and she
> > does not have backed up
> > >in over a month!!).
> > >

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