Security update...and reccomendation for Disk Utility program
I don't think that Norton was the problem...the problem showed up before I tried Norton to try and do some repairs. (BTW I am running this on an older dinosaur, an Imac G3, 400mhz,Graphite)
Like I said, the problem (BSOD) showed up immediately upon restart after installing the security update. Bang! Blue screen.
I tried using Norton Utilities for Mac...it found a bunch of errors and "fixed" them. Still, computer only booted to a blue screen.
I tried starting in "safe mode", but got only my desktop pattern, with no menus and no disk/folder/file icons.
I tried inserting my OS 10.4 DVD, and running the disk utility program. It found no errors. My thought then was to a re-install of the system software, but it needs 1.9 GB of free space and my older mac only had about 1.5GB of free space.
Now I had a dilemma...how do I access the disk, remove some files to make space to reinstall the OS. Fortunately, the Disk Utility program offered to allow me to boot from my external drive which has OS9 on it.
So, I booted from my external, in OS9 (which is pretty clunky looking if you haven't used it for a while) and was able to transfer/delete files from my main boot drive to make room for a new install.
Then I tried a new/clean install which moved old system files to a previous system folder. That took over an hour, and then at the very end, I got a message that there was an error of some sort, and it was unable to complete the install.
Now my plan is to copy all the file off my main boot drive, re-format the drive, and do a clean install of OS 10.4.
I'm open to any other suggestions....also, a suggestion to the best disk utility program to replace my Norton utilities.