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An update: Everything appears to be back to normal. I have successfully restored the backup .dmg image of the hard drive. I found online documentation on how to actually do the restore, and the process counter intutative. Long story short: Drag an drop of hard drive to restore to...

Doctor X thank you for your patience and help. I've bailed and decided to try and wipe the hard drive and restore the dmg image. Unfortunately this is easier said than done. Seems to require some combination of checksuming and validation etc. Do you or anyone else have a link to step by step...

Unfortunately I can't boot from an external drive. Only the install DVD works. I going to try reformatting and reloading the disk image. Thanks for advice.

Alas archive and install requires at least 5 gigs of disk space. I only have about 1.4 gigs because there is a giant folder of material I backed up sitting on the desktop. It's redundant because it's been copied to the external drive. Any way through either the install cd or command line ( I...

Just to be clear: this was all done with tiger. I have not yet installed snow leopard. Any other ideas?

In preparing my MacBook currently running Tiger for upgrade to snow leopard I've somehow pooched it. The booting sound plays but then I get the flashing folder with a question mark. It won't boot in safe mode. It will boot in single user mode but only from the install disc. The...