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    please help - unable to burn DVD

    Hi. I recently purchased a Toshiba SD-R5112 burner and replaced my old internal CD-ROM drive with it. I've been able to read/write CDs and read DVDs, but I've been unable (with any software) to burn a DVD. When I use the built-in software, it spits the DVD out and tells me that the startup...
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    Can I change the burn cache disk?

    Hi. Is it possible to change what the system uses for its caching disk when burning a DVD or CD? I don't have enough space on my startup disk, but more than enough on external disks. When I try to burn a DVD I get a "Startup Disk Is Full" error. Thanks in advance CG
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    suddenly (?) won't boot from CD into X

    10.2.8 solved this problem. The End.
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    suddenly (?) won't boot from CD into X

    Okay. So I've had Disk Warrior 3 for several months now. A few months ago I booted from it successfully and ran it with no problems. Since that time I moved, during which time the CD got a little banged up. I decided to make a bootable CD using bootcd (I had copied DW to my harddrive). I know...
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    single-user mode gone - help

    Hi and thanks for the replies. I found out (thanks to macfixit forum) that one of my video cards - the one I'm using normally - does not initialize early enough in the boot process, which means that I actually am in single user mode, but the monitor is dead. This means I have to switch to the...
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    single-user mode gone - help

    Hi. For you power-users ... I have relied on single user mode for fsck-ing for a while now. Twice, when doing freelance work on-site I have run into OS 10.2+ machines that refuse to boot in single-user mode. Now I'm having this problem on my home machine, and it is really bugging me (running...
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