[X4U] Very weird disk corruption - pleas for help!

[Russell McGaha]

Jim;
	Look at the OWC portable FW drive; they are great and USUALLY quite  
competitive in price [both the do it your self, what I do, and the  
pre-built].

Russell
On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> On 3/25/08 10:42 PM, "Christopher Collins"  
> <maclist at analogdigital.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> I would try booting off one of the install disks and going into Disk
>> utility and see if it sees your internal disk drive.
>>
>> Try deleting ALL your partitions and then creating a total disk HFS+
>> partition to install Leopard onto.
>>
>> Then when you have reinstalled Leopard, you should be able to go   
>> through
>> the necessary steps to reinstall Boot Camp and XP.
>
> Sometimes what one needs is...
>
> A GENIUS!!!
>
> I went to the Apple Store this evening. The genius said he hadn't a  
> clue why
> my series of moves had created this quagmire, but he said he could  
> fix it.
>
> He booted to a portable FW hard drive that had images of almost all  
> recent
> Apple System Software Install DVDs (Tiger, Leopard, Servers, etc.)  
> and just
> ran the installer on my Tiger installation. That went MUCH faster  
> than it
> would have from the Install DVD if I'd even been able to boot from it.
>
> Then, he put a USB dongle into the USB port that somehow directed  
> Software
> Update to a server in the back room of the Apple Store and applied  
> all the
> updates, in a period of about 20 minutes.
>
> So, I'm not forced to buy a new MacBook Pro, and my son must wait  
> some time
> to get his own Intel Mac notebook.
>
> The most impressive bit in all this was how speedy the portable FW  
> drive
> was. Anyone have favorites among them? At the Apple Store they're  
> about
> $1/Gigabyte, maxing out at 200 GB, unless one buys a desktop  
> device. Seems
> to me a great way to take emergency installers and recovery drives  
> along
> with one's laptop.
>
> The $64 question is, how long will it take me to muster the courage  
> to try
> booting my rescued MacBook Pro from my Leopard Install DVD?
>
> Jim Robertson
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