[MacDV] Disk Warrior freezing on reboot

[Neil Poese]

Gregg Gorrie wrote:

>on 12/20/04 1:23 PM, Neil Poese at npoese at earthlink.net wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>I have a high school video lab with 14 emacs of various vintages and one
>>QS. I just ran Disk Warrior on all of them, but unfortunately, two of
>>the machines couldn't boot from the DW drive. The reboot screen would
>>simply freeze and lock up the machines. Since DW worked fine on all of
>>the rest of the machines - some of them identical to the two that
>>wouldn't reboot - I'm stumped as to why it wouldn't work, after repeated
>>tries on these two.  Any ideas?
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>>Thanks,
>>Neil Poese
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>Do you mean Disk Warrior on CD (as opposed to hard drive)? If so, it's
>possible that the CD itself is slightly scratched or dirty. Some CD/DVD-ROM
>drives are more picky than others and may have problems reading the disk. If
>this is the problem, try cleaning the disk and the CD drives in question.
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Hmm, good idea! Now I wonder, how do you go about cleaning CD drives?  :-)

Thanks,
NP