[X-Newbies] Help! Total HD Meltdown

[Alex]

On May 23, 2005, at 08:45, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 7:50 AM -0400 5/23/05, Alex wrote:
>> (iii) current versions require a more recent version of the OS than 
>> you have -- for instance, DiskWarrior, requires at least Mac OS X 
>> v10.2.1.
>
> The current DW, as purchased, should start up her machine from the CD 
> provided and allow her to attempt repair - her early OS version should 
> not matter for such an operation.

Quite so.

> And it would not be recommended that she try to *install* the DW 
> application on the problem partition before using it, which would be 
> when the OS incompatibility would arise.

The original poster said

>> I partitioned my HD into two, a system partition and a data
>> partition. I just booted up my eMac 700mhz, and the data
>> partition is gone.

so the question doesn't arise -- let alone that it would be rather 
difficult to install DW on a partition that won't mount...

Of course, once a directory error has been detected, nothing should be 
installed on, copied to, deleted from the defective volume until the 
issue has been resolved.

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