10.5.3 Update Half Installed....Now won't boot HELP!
I've been successfully running Leopard on 2 different drives on the following computer
G-4 (digital audio) 733 {model before Quicksilver}
upgraded to 1.47 GHZ....processor. 1 gig of memory
Computer has been handling Leopard fine up to now.
I was updating one of the drives to 10.5.3 when the screen activity locked up.
After quite a long time and ceasing of drive crunching data....I did a hard restart.
Since this time, the drive wont start up,. just the spooling rotor underneath the apple
on the gray screen, which doesn't stop.
There is no time-machine backup on this drive. I've used the Leopard install disc
to run the disc utility and repair permissions but this is a case of an update, half installed.
Of course, with Leopard, booting with the install disc does not show the drive, disc image on
the desktop...so access for re-running the update isn't there.
How do I fix this drive and recover what's there, re-running the update or ????
Thanks
G-4 (digital audio) 733 {model before Quicksilver}
upgraded to 1.47 GHZ....processor. 1 gig of memory
Computer has been handling Leopard fine up to now.
I was updating one of the drives to 10.5.3 when the screen activity locked up.
After quite a long time and ceasing of drive crunching data....I did a hard restart.
Since this time, the drive wont start up,. just the spooling rotor underneath the apple
on the gray screen, which doesn't stop.
There is no time-machine backup on this drive. I've used the Leopard install disc
to run the disc utility and repair permissions but this is a case of an update, half installed.
Of course, with Leopard, booting with the install disc does not show the drive, disc image on
the desktop...so access for re-running the update isn't there.
How do I fix this drive and recover what's there, re-running the update or ????
Thanks
Comments
If you have a bootable external drive, you can run the update (Combo) from there. Just point it to the internal drive. If you dont, just reinstall Leopard as an archive & install. You'll keep your files and apps. You may have to reinstall some applications or just recover your old Application support folder from /Library.
Great ideas!! Thanks much