[G4] URGENT Need MAC help desperately

[John Gittins]

I'm not quite clear how this works. I follow your suggestion that we 
boot from an OS9 partition or from OS9 on an external drive. But 
where is DW3 located? I don't think we can install DW3 on OS9; so is 
it on CD, or is it installed on the OSX drive to be repaired?

John Gittins


>That is correct Kunga, But I still recomend trying to start from 
>OS9. I have had this exact problem on two Macs, and a trip through 
>OS9 with DW3 was my only fix. Installing a newer OSX over the old 
>did not work. A wipe and install would work, but it would take the 
>data out. You can save the data to a CD and then wipe the disk.
>
>Once certain, seemingly small, volume problems arise Newer Mac OSs 
>(9.0 on ) are iffy on booting to a CD. They are even iffy booting to 
>other volumes and partitions.
>
>Having "volume wrapper" problems seem to make booting to any CD a 
>real pain. The DW3 is for OSX; But!! It must boot to it's self to 
>run repairs. When you have this "volume wrapper" problem it is 
>easier to run from a second volume or partition than it is to get a 
>CD to boot. It is easier to get the Mac to reboot to a OS9 volume or 
>partition than it is getting it booted to a OSX volume or partition. 
>...........I don't know why.........Dw3 will work on an OSX disk 
>from a OS9 disk or volume just fine.
>
>
>Kunga wrote:
>
>>I think she bought the OS X version of Disk Warrior Roger.
>>
>>kunga10 (AIM)
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