Big, Bad Mojo!

power apple

(Not sure if this belongs in hardware or software, so posting in general)



Last night (1 AM) I was workin hard on a deadline (today) on my iMacG4/800. I'm working in Mac OS X (10.2.1), but are having some print problems and desides to boot in OS 9.2.2 to find out what's happening. I haven't made any backup this week - been to busy. Here's what happened:



-Open system prefs, change start disk,

-restart,

-blinking ?

-start up in OS9 disk, tells me HD (with all my work on it) is corrupt, asks if I want to initialize!!!

-My face = :eek:

-Find DiskWarrior CD, try to boot up, fails.

-thinking

-Connecting external FireWire HD

-boot up from system 9 cd again, install system on FireWireHD

-start up from firewire, open diskwarrior (3 AM by now)

-takes ages (166000 files)

-need big drink

-still waiting for DiskWarrior

-Fixed! (4:30 AM)



Point No.1: Go buy DiskWarrior, not tomorrow, TODAY!

Point No.2: Why the f*ck did my mac mess up like that??!!!! (havent' installed anything or played with the system since last I started in 9)

Point No.3: I'm buying a PC....nah, skip point No.3 but still, something like this shouldn't happen...

kecksy

What kind of printing errors were you have in OS X?

defiant

see, the good thing is that you only spent 3.5 hours fixing your mac. 3.5 hours and everything is fine again.



On a PC, your nightmare could've stretched into days...



:cool:

jesperas

Congrats on the fix. Something similar happened to me--HD became unrecogizable and refused to mount without warning. I was running OS 9.04 at the time, and was able to repair it with a combination of Disk First Aid and TechTool. I probably could have done it with just DiskWarrior, but TechTool was all I had at the time.

power apple

[quote]Originally posted by Kecksy:

<strong>What kind of printing errors were you have in OS X?</strong><hr></blockquote>



Well, I found out that there wasn't really a problem after all, it just happened that the page setup in Logic Audio somehow had been set to scale 3500% (I didn't notice that right away) and that somehow screwed the layout inside the program itself as well (it disn't scale, instead it showed a lot of strange artifacts and distortion, so that's why I desided to boot in OS 9 in the first place - to see if it had the same problem.



[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

<strong>On a PC, your nightmare could've stretched into days...</strong><hr></blockquote>



I know even if I hadn't been able to fix it, I wouldn't have switched to PC anyway - I was just really pissed last night.



[quote]Originally posted by jesperas:

<strong>Congrats on the fix. ... I probably could have done it with just DiskWarrior, but TechTool was all I had at the time.</strong><hr></blockquote>



Thanks. I bought DiskWarrior in the first place (about 6 months ago) because I had problems with an external drive and Norton Utils latest couldn't fix it. I also tried Drive 10 (same "engine" as TechTool, if I'm not mistaken) and nothing worked (Norton actually made it worse becuase it claimed it had fixed the problems, but if I ran it again right after the "fix", even more problems would come up and none of the old would have been fixed). I had important datas on the drive, so as a last resort I bought DiskWarrior and that just worked.

brianmacos

[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

<strong>see, the good thing is that you only spent 3.5 hours fixing your mac. 3.5 hours and everything is fine again.



On a PC, your nightmare could've stretched into days...



:cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>



No, No lol if it was a PC you have about 8 to 12 hours of good fixing to do easy. I have done it many times and out of all the times I spent 8 to 12 hours fixing my Windows Machines I should have bought a cheap PC that I could have used to Ghost my HD to fix the problem in an hour.