[MacDV] Disk Warrior freezing on reboot

[Gregg Gorrie]

on 12/20/04 1:46 PM, Neil Poese at npoese at earthlink.net wrote:

> Gregg Gorrie wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Hmm, good idea! Now I wonder, how do you go about cleaning CD drives?  :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> NP

You can get CD/CD drive cleaning kits at most electronics stores (Radio
Shack, etc.)
-- 
Gregg