[MacDV] Disk Warrior freezing on reboot

[Gregg Gorrie]

on 12/20/04 1:23 PM, Neil Poese at npoese at earthlink.net wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Neil Poese

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.

-- 
Gregg