Recent content by gastroboy

The problem I suspect is with CD-RWs. PCs have a method of formatting these to effectively use them like floppies (something I wish the Mac could do). This format is incomprehensible to the Mac. Also some of the Apple CD drives had trouble reading CD-RWs period. Another of those expensive...

One thing you should look for. Is there an application suddenly using considerable amounts of your harddrive for scratch disk? OSX not only gets really S L O W when running out of Virtual memory space (less than 10%) it gets positively dangerous. In the same vein check whether you are...

The OS9 version works fine with OSX, just boot off the OS9 system on it. The problem is with your OS9 partition anyway. btw care to share the secret of creating a bootable OSX CD? I need one to run other installers and rescue apps only mountable in OSX. Tried creating a temporary volume and...

I have exactly the same. Well almost in my case it is "sh -2.05a#" which from my references means it is in a Bourne shell whatever that is. It isn't really a freeze, you can type commands but in this new "friendlier, easier to use" Mac OS there is no way out unless you are proficient in...

This is not usually enough if he is having trouble with the hard drive. 1. Best bet is DiskWarrior. You should keep a DiskWarrior CD with bootable system on it to run repairs. 99% of the time it will fix the drive and you will be back in business. 2. Stubborn cases need the extra utilities...

To clarify my thinking. To have an Apple dealer trouble shoot my problems will cost a minimum of $100, maybe over $200. This money would be better put towards a new FW drive.

>>Unplug ALL hard disks except the internal one with the problematic OS X installation and format the heck out of it, then install OS X.2?<< I have already reinstalled that one twice with a reformat between. Once with v10.1 and again with 10.2. It is not a quick process and I am after a while...

fili - That means your hard drive is not mounting. You will need to get it back using something like Disk Warrior. Disk First Aid (see your menus on your install CD) would be your first try but it rarely does anything. DW is a godsend. You may have experienced a problem I encountered on...

I have already gone down the clean install route on a fresh hard drive. Immediately I started and went to preferences to set the system up the way I need it, I got a perpetual spinning beachball that force quit wouldn't get rid off. So yet again I am hard restarting on, I repeat, a clean...

Don't be so quick to condemn. Cmd E will not eject the start up disk. I have been in similar Catch 22s, in fact I am in one now. You quickly lose the the most basic knowledge when you are painted into a corner and, as ususal, a deadline looms, usually because it takes days to resolve issues...

Something to pray for in Panther is a feature match with Windows where you can format a CDRW and treat it just like a large floppy, dragging things off and on. A big part of my problems is the fact my CD burner is an external FW drive and the OSX tools only work well with internal CDRW...

My VST floppy causes the system to lock up ever since OSX 10.2. There are no driver updates available that I can find. Just another cross to bear in OSX, along with problems with my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card.

I think I am at the format and erase stage but unfortunately I have a massive amount of files on the same disk. I dread the thought of backing them up. Is there no way to just disable the system like in OS9? Think I may be forced to buy (yet another) external FW drive. Given there are...

but it still screwed up. Currently mouse is locked up in top left corner and all volumes appear as folders. fsck reports disk as OK, so I guess the system is hosed. How do disable OSX so i can reinstall an older system in its place? In OS9 you just separate the finder and system and...

Again how do I prebind if it is a CLI thingy what is the exact incantation I must invoke. btw I was on 10.2.6 when the whole house of cards descended around my ears.