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The new update killed my Mac
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<blockquote data-quote="awirz" data-source="post: 838300" data-attributes="member: 87547"><p><strong>HD recovery by cloning and re-installation</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hi Dean,</p><p></p><p>sorry I get back to you so late, I was on a business trip much longer than anticipated.</p><p></p><p>I analysed your situation further and concluded that it's the best thing to make a duplicate copy of your startup disk (to an external harddisk), reinstall Mac OS X 10.4 and then take over all data from the copy. I had to do just that as well with 2 of my systems about 6 months ago since it is almost impossible to find specific problems buried deep in the system!</p><p></p><p>You have 2 options for the copy program: <span style="color: SeaGreen">SuperDuper</span> from <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html" target="_blank">SuperDuper!</a> or <span style="color: Blue">Carbon Copy Cloner 3</span> from <a href="http://www.bombich.com/software/index.html" target="_blank">Bombich Software: Carbon Copy Cloner</a>. I'm using SuperDuper regularly which is very good at making copies of harddisks with file access problems. A few months ago it copied a complete harddisk that nothing else could copy without problems!</p><p></p><p>Now you would do the following: Install the above utilities on your 2nd Mac (preferably a <span style="color: Red">desktop system with more than 1 FireWire interface</span>!), put your iBook G4 in Target Disk Mode and connect the FireWire cable between the 2 Macs. Attach the external harddisk (must have a <span style="color: red">FireWire interface in order to be bootable on the iBook G4</span>!) to your 2nd Mac (if it has 1 FireWire interface only then you could daisy-chain 2nd Mac to harddisk and from harddisks 2nd FireWire interface on to iBook). After having mounted iBook and ext. harddisk (make sure it has a meaningful name) on your 2nd Mac you would start one of the utilities, configure them to copy the <span style="color: Blue">iBook HD</span> to the <span style="color: blue">ext. HD</span> (<span style="color: red">erasing it</span> completely and <span style="color: red">making it bootable</span>!) and then execute the copy operation. After successful completion you would unmount both HDs, unconnect the FireWire cables, power down the iBook, connect the ext. HD to the iBook, start the iBook while pressing the option key and in the upcoming selection choose the ext. HD to boot from. If booting from the ext. HD is successful and the OS is operating properly you would insert the Mac OS X 10.4 CD/DVD and restart the iBook from it by pressing C after the chime. Now reinstall Mac OS X 10.4 on the iBook HD deleting the previous data. After the installation has completed and the iBook restarted you are given the option to take over data from another installation (here from the ext. HD; select all that you would like to transfer to your new system). Transfer of data will take a while. After completion you will need to <span style="color: red">install the necessary system updates</span>. If you were using kernel extensions for any special devices before you may need to re-install them now. Otherwise you should now be up and running again. ;D </p><p></p><p>Good luck Adrian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="awirz, post: 838300, member: 87547"] [b]HD recovery by cloning and re-installation[/b] Hi Dean, sorry I get back to you so late, I was on a business trip much longer than anticipated. I analysed your situation further and concluded that it's the best thing to make a duplicate copy of your startup disk (to an external harddisk), reinstall Mac OS X 10.4 and then take over all data from the copy. I had to do just that as well with 2 of my systems about 6 months ago since it is almost impossible to find specific problems buried deep in the system! You have 2 options for the copy program: [COLOR="SeaGreen"]SuperDuper[/COLOR] from [url=http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html]SuperDuper![/url] or [COLOR="Blue"]Carbon Copy Cloner 3[/COLOR] from [url=http://www.bombich.com/software/index.html]Bombich Software: Carbon Copy Cloner[/url]. I'm using SuperDuper regularly which is very good at making copies of harddisks with file access problems. A few months ago it copied a complete harddisk that nothing else could copy without problems! Now you would do the following: Install the above utilities on your 2nd Mac (preferably a [COLOR="Red"]desktop system with more than 1 FireWire interface[/COLOR]!), put your iBook G4 in Target Disk Mode and connect the FireWire cable between the 2 Macs. Attach the external harddisk (must have a [COLOR="red"]FireWire interface in order to be bootable on the iBook G4[/COLOR]!) to your 2nd Mac (if it has 1 FireWire interface only then you could daisy-chain 2nd Mac to harddisk and from harddisks 2nd FireWire interface on to iBook). After having mounted iBook and ext. harddisk (make sure it has a meaningful name) on your 2nd Mac you would start one of the utilities, configure them to copy the [COLOR="Blue"]iBook HD[/COLOR] to the [COLOR="blue"]ext. HD[/COLOR] ([COLOR="red"]erasing it[/COLOR] completely and [COLOR="red"]making it bootable[/COLOR]!) and then execute the copy operation. After successful completion you would unmount both HDs, unconnect the FireWire cables, power down the iBook, connect the ext. HD to the iBook, start the iBook while pressing the option key and in the upcoming selection choose the ext. HD to boot from. If booting from the ext. HD is successful and the OS is operating properly you would insert the Mac OS X 10.4 CD/DVD and restart the iBook from it by pressing C after the chime. Now reinstall Mac OS X 10.4 on the iBook HD deleting the previous data. After the installation has completed and the iBook restarted you are given the option to take over data from another installation (here from the ext. HD; select all that you would like to transfer to your new system). Transfer of data will take a while. After completion you will need to [COLOR="red"]install the necessary system updates[/COLOR]. If you were using kernel extensions for any special devices before you may need to re-install them now. Otherwise you should now be up and running again. ;D Good luck Adrian [/QUOTE]
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