Nothing is changed until you press, "Accept". A list of problem files is shown, as well as current and suggested directory structures. Screen shots: taken with a camera as the capture facility will not work with the utility running The "Repair" is faster and, while some tidying up was needed, there were no defects. The CDROM is painfully slow as it checks the entire system. Inserting the bootable disk I restarted with the C-key pressed. The latest version (3.0.1) arrived the day before Songkran. I realised that my version of Disk Warrior was out of date. Interrruptions had destabilised the system. The previous day's usage, before problems (iTunes, Internet, graphics work and Neverwinter Nights), had been in high temperatures: all pushing the iMac past what it was prepared to do. The office is air-conditioned, my home is not. Once I had backed up data onto the G4, I ran all checks again: zero problems. The next morning, I took the iMac to my office where it started first time. I did what sensible people do: I shut down and went to bed. Starting up in single-user mode (Command + S) and running a file system check, produced the message, "we are hanging here." Starting up with installation disks (these have the disk utility tools) also stopped the computer.Īnalysis: the safe mode startup missed the checks the vanilla start used the journalled system but the single user and the disk startups ran the full check. If I then restarted normally, OSX ran, but would quit randomly. If I started in safe mode (shift key pressed) it booted. As I was using 10.3.2, it meant going back to 10.3 and updating.Īll went well until I got back to 10.3.2 and the multi-language box came on telling me to shut down and start the computer again: a kernel panic. I reinstalled OSX using a procedure called "archive and install." The old OS is put to one side and a new one installed: user settings intact. Aged two, and after much abuse, I wondered if it were about to expire: a shame. My iMac did not settle down with a new battery installation. OSX fixes and Hardware Hacks: Review of Disk Warrior 3.1 and two books on hardware hacking
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