marknichol
Registered
G4 1.5 ghz Powerbook Aluminium 15 running OSX 10.4
Problem arose when backing up hard drive in process of upgrading current 80 gb drive for 250gb drive. Put new 250gb in usb caddy to copy/clone old drive but wouldnt mount on my powerbook. It did however mount on my G4 tower! Booted powerbook in firewire mode and picked it up on G4 tower. Used disk utility disc restore to put the old powerbook hard drive onto the new one in the usb caddy. This copied over but then when I restarted the powerbook it asked me to log on as user which it never used to do. As it didnt accept the password I reset the password using the install disc. Followed the password reset routine
Restart mac holding down c with install disc in.
Onto menu "utilities"
Reset password
Dvd logo and hard drive logo present
Click on hard drive logo
Put in new password
Restarted but still wouldnt accept password
Tried to reset again
Restart mac holding down c with install disc in.
Onto menu "utilities"
Reset password
Dvd logo and hard drive logo present
Click on hard drive logo
Select a user of this volume to reset their password
No available user
Will not highlight
Restarted onto the Log on screen and it shows
Mac OS X
Mark Nichols Computer
Name
Password
Wont accept password
Tried all variations of name (shortened etc) but nothing, also getting no password hint.
Then tried disc utility to check permissions etc
Disc utility
First aid
keys out of order volume needs to be repaired
Have repaired with Tech tools pro and all clear but still back to log on screen that wont accept password and wont let me reset it. Its like there is no user to log onto?
Is it time to just swap hard drives and start again. Maybe the copied new hard drive may start up but I cant check this as I cant boot up from a USB caddy so it means changing drives in powerbook before finding out..
Any help more than welcome and very gratefull
Problem arose when backing up hard drive in process of upgrading current 80 gb drive for 250gb drive. Put new 250gb in usb caddy to copy/clone old drive but wouldnt mount on my powerbook. It did however mount on my G4 tower! Booted powerbook in firewire mode and picked it up on G4 tower. Used disk utility disc restore to put the old powerbook hard drive onto the new one in the usb caddy. This copied over but then when I restarted the powerbook it asked me to log on as user which it never used to do. As it didnt accept the password I reset the password using the install disc. Followed the password reset routine
Restart mac holding down c with install disc in.
Onto menu "utilities"
Reset password
Dvd logo and hard drive logo present
Click on hard drive logo
Put in new password
Restarted but still wouldnt accept password
Tried to reset again
Restart mac holding down c with install disc in.
Onto menu "utilities"
Reset password
Dvd logo and hard drive logo present
Click on hard drive logo
Select a user of this volume to reset their password
No available user
Will not highlight
Restarted onto the Log on screen and it shows
Mac OS X
Mark Nichols Computer
Name
Password
Wont accept password
Tried all variations of name (shortened etc) but nothing, also getting no password hint.
Then tried disc utility to check permissions etc
Disc utility
First aid
keys out of order volume needs to be repaired
Have repaired with Tech tools pro and all clear but still back to log on screen that wont accept password and wont let me reset it. Its like there is no user to log onto?
Is it time to just swap hard drives and start again. Maybe the copied new hard drive may start up but I cant check this as I cant boot up from a USB caddy so it means changing drives in powerbook before finding out..
Any help more than welcome and very gratefull