A friend's blueberry iMac (crt) went south on her the other day. When you turn it on the apple logo appears then nothing. Checked the diagnostics, everything is fine. Tried to repair the permissions and verify the disc but it said "invalid sibling link". Broke out DiskWarrior. It spent the day doing its thing, then I rebooted. Now it gives me a kernel panic. Nice.
The machine had OS9 and OS X on it. The owner used both and had documents saved on both in no order - "I just saved stuff where ever".
I'm trying to get it working again so her kid can do her homework. Here's where I need some help.
Since she has stuff saved all over creation, if I do an OS X install with the "archive and ____" option, will I still be able to get to the OS9 part of the drive to recover data? I'm not sure if the HD is bad or not. I could give her a spare of mine, but I'm trying not to spend money on something that isn't mine.
What would you do in a situation like this?
The machine had OS9 and OS X on it. The owner used both and had documents saved on both in no order - "I just saved stuff where ever".
I'm trying to get it working again so her kid can do her homework. Here's where I need some help.
Since she has stuff saved all over creation, if I do an OS X install with the "archive and ____" option, will I still be able to get to the OS9 part of the drive to recover data? I'm not sure if the HD is bad or not. I could give her a spare of mine, but I'm trying not to spend money on something that isn't mine.
What would you do in a situation like this?