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what in the name of Pearl is wrong with this silly emac?
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<blockquote data-quote="mufngruf" data-source="post: 1208939" data-attributes="member: 151219"><p>Right Folks... I MAY have stumbled on a real savage quirk here... </p><p>I successfully replaced the hard drive with another, run good and clear on TechTool.</p><p>I installed, on two separate partitions Tiger 10.4 and Leopard 10.5.1 ( the two disks I have.)</p><p></p><p>I tested the drive in an external case.. everything worked just swell.</p><p></p><p>I put the drive in the emac and entered all the wizard stuff afresh with each system.</p><p></p><p>I booted into Tiger and did a software update and install.</p><p>all was good.</p><p></p><p>I then booted into leopard and BEGAN a software update. During the actual OS update download/install I got the dreaded"You must restart your machine with the power button" message in sadistic Black and white.</p><p></p><p>Upon a hard shutdown and restart, the leopard partition wouldn't open.. I had to do another hard restart into Tiger.</p><p></p><p>Using disk utility, I tried to repair the leopard partition but it stalled midway.. </p><p>I restarted into the Leopard installation disk, used Utility to wipe the entire drive, repartition into just the one.. and then tried to install leopard onto this single partition.</p><p>it failed, repeatedly.</p><p></p><p>This emac has rendered two drives inoperable in twelve hours... with, admittedly, a little help from me.</p><p></p><p>The only common feature is the attempt to update both Tiger and Leopard together.</p><p></p><p>Makes no sense but I'm not gonna buy that two drives just went suddenly titsup just when they were put into the emac (and then tried to both do the same thing) as some kinda coincidence.</p><p>I can't really imagine someone else needing to try this but I'd beware if you decide to try it.</p><p></p><p>I've managed to get a techtool disk into it and it's looking for bad blocks as I type.</p><p></p><p>we'll see.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mufngruf, post: 1208939, member: 151219"] Right Folks... I MAY have stumbled on a real savage quirk here... I successfully replaced the hard drive with another, run good and clear on TechTool. I installed, on two separate partitions Tiger 10.4 and Leopard 10.5.1 ( the two disks I have.) I tested the drive in an external case.. everything worked just swell. I put the drive in the emac and entered all the wizard stuff afresh with each system. I booted into Tiger and did a software update and install. all was good. I then booted into leopard and BEGAN a software update. During the actual OS update download/install I got the dreaded"You must restart your machine with the power button" message in sadistic Black and white. Upon a hard shutdown and restart, the leopard partition wouldn't open.. I had to do another hard restart into Tiger. Using disk utility, I tried to repair the leopard partition but it stalled midway.. I restarted into the Leopard installation disk, used Utility to wipe the entire drive, repartition into just the one.. and then tried to install leopard onto this single partition. it failed, repeatedly. This emac has rendered two drives inoperable in twelve hours... with, admittedly, a little help from me. The only common feature is the attempt to update both Tiger and Leopard together. Makes no sense but I'm not gonna buy that two drives just went suddenly titsup just when they were put into the emac (and then tried to both do the same thing) as some kinda coincidence. I can't really imagine someone else needing to try this but I'd beware if you decide to try it. I've managed to get a techtool disk into it and it's looking for bad blocks as I type. we'll see..... [/QUOTE]
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