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cosmik_debris
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Hi,
My powerbook, about 18 months old, has begun freezing and forcing me to manually turn the computer off, after which it won't start up beyond the blue/gray spinny screen.
Initally, I could just run disk repairs from my start-up disk, but now even that isn't working. When this happened last week, I went to my college's computer center and used Disk Warrior, which seems to ameliorate the situation until tonight when it occurred again. As the computer center won't be open until tomorrow morning, I'm trying to think of ways to fix it now. Any suggestions? I have an external hard drive set up as a firewire device, and I've been trying to start up from my external hard drive so that my computer will read from that as opposed to my hard drive. I assumed that it would work since my external hard drive is an exact copy of my computer's internal hard drive, but whenever I start up the computer, depressing the "option" key, my external hard drive won't come up as one of my choices, whereas the internal HD and the start-up disk WILL be options. Why is this happening? What can I do?
Thank you so much.
Best,
Ally
My powerbook, about 18 months old, has begun freezing and forcing me to manually turn the computer off, after which it won't start up beyond the blue/gray spinny screen.
Initally, I could just run disk repairs from my start-up disk, but now even that isn't working. When this happened last week, I went to my college's computer center and used Disk Warrior, which seems to ameliorate the situation until tonight when it occurred again. As the computer center won't be open until tomorrow morning, I'm trying to think of ways to fix it now. Any suggestions? I have an external hard drive set up as a firewire device, and I've been trying to start up from my external hard drive so that my computer will read from that as opposed to my hard drive. I assumed that it would work since my external hard drive is an exact copy of my computer's internal hard drive, but whenever I start up the computer, depressing the "option" key, my external hard drive won't come up as one of my choices, whereas the internal HD and the start-up disk WILL be options. Why is this happening? What can I do?
Thank you so much.
Best,
Ally