Hi,
I'm writing as I did a clean reinstall of my original system and updated it to 10.4.4 on my 667 DVI Powerbook. I had to redo the system as the update to 10.4.5 corrupted my laptop files. I tried to do a reinstall keeping the user settings and preferences yet other problems surfaced (couldn't update system or other programs).
So, to make a long story short, the problem is that when I go to the system preferences and open up the startup disk folder, that folder 'crashes' and doesn't stay open long enough to allow me to select OS 9.22. OS 9 shows up as a valid choice and certainly is available in Classic but I need to be able to fully switch as I have programs there that won't run in Classic.
When I do open the folder, the OSX and OS 9, along with the other default options show up, yet it doesn't fully open, it crashes before I can select OS 9.
REMEDIES TRIED:
-Repairing permissions and reboot
-Ran Disk Warrior and rebooted.
-Tried to select OS 9 in the startup disk window (real fast, before the window crashes, but no luck)
When the startup disk window crashes, the rest of the system is fine but a dialogue box comes up and states that it crashed and do I want to reopen it.
Is there a way to correct this without having to completely reinstall again? OS 9 did open up and allow me to switch correctly when I had to install panther (as the HD wouldn't allow me to update to tiger directly from 10.15 (or whatever the original OS from the factory was.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,
Jared Bryans
I'm writing as I did a clean reinstall of my original system and updated it to 10.4.4 on my 667 DVI Powerbook. I had to redo the system as the update to 10.4.5 corrupted my laptop files. I tried to do a reinstall keeping the user settings and preferences yet other problems surfaced (couldn't update system or other programs).
So, to make a long story short, the problem is that when I go to the system preferences and open up the startup disk folder, that folder 'crashes' and doesn't stay open long enough to allow me to select OS 9.22. OS 9 shows up as a valid choice and certainly is available in Classic but I need to be able to fully switch as I have programs there that won't run in Classic.
When I do open the folder, the OSX and OS 9, along with the other default options show up, yet it doesn't fully open, it crashes before I can select OS 9.
REMEDIES TRIED:
-Repairing permissions and reboot
-Ran Disk Warrior and rebooted.
-Tried to select OS 9 in the startup disk window (real fast, before the window crashes, but no luck)
When the startup disk window crashes, the rest of the system is fine but a dialogue box comes up and states that it crashed and do I want to reopen it.
Is there a way to correct this without having to completely reinstall again? OS 9 did open up and allow me to switch correctly when I had to install panther (as the HD wouldn't allow me to update to tiger directly from 10.15 (or whatever the original OS from the factory was.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,
Jared Bryans