Last night after returning from a 2-week trip abroad with my Mac in tow, the system crashed. It was impossible to reboot the system. It would seemingly go through a normal reboot, but at the point when it should ask for my name and password, it would just show a blue screen and nothing else. On later attempts it would just shutdown.
So, I entered single-user mode.
From here I entered fsck -y (and later fsck -fy)
Although I don't have the computer w/me at work, the errors were something to the following effect:
It would find I/O errors on the disk, which it could not fix. And there were errors with the, what is it - B-Tree? something like that.
As I recall, the same error or a similar error happened soon after I installed Tiger on my system. The only way to recovered I was told was to reinstall, which I did. Being worried however that there was a severe problem with my HD I was told, as I recall, that if OSX will install on the disk, then there aren't any problems with it - (i.e., during the install OSX will check the HD). Also, I recall doing a Check Disk after the install and I believe I did one not long before leaving on my trip.
Anyhow, my immediate question is this: How can I get the information that is on the HD off of it? Can I somehow do a firewire to firewire connection between 2 macs and copy all information off the HD? Or could I maybe boot of a CD (OSX or Debian maybe) and then somehow move the information off the HD to an external drive?
So, I entered single-user mode.
From here I entered fsck -y (and later fsck -fy)
Although I don't have the computer w/me at work, the errors were something to the following effect:
It would find I/O errors on the disk, which it could not fix. And there were errors with the, what is it - B-Tree? something like that.
As I recall, the same error or a similar error happened soon after I installed Tiger on my system. The only way to recovered I was told was to reinstall, which I did. Being worried however that there was a severe problem with my HD I was told, as I recall, that if OSX will install on the disk, then there aren't any problems with it - (i.e., during the install OSX will check the HD). Also, I recall doing a Check Disk after the install and I believe I did one not long before leaving on my trip.
Anyhow, my immediate question is this: How can I get the information that is on the HD off of it? Can I somehow do a firewire to firewire connection between 2 macs and copy all information off the HD? Or could I maybe boot of a CD (OSX or Debian maybe) and then somehow move the information off the HD to an external drive?