Getting to a computer that won’t quite boot
I realize some of you might be interested in knowing what I’m doing with my computer that won’t quite boot. A few years ago when I had a similar problem, a geek taught me the basics of what I’m doing now. An article from MacWorld describes the basics and how to do a little more to a Mac with a bad CD drive. I can boot the machine as a target drive and get to its contents fine via a Firewire connection. Of course, what isn’t working for me is getting a repair CD to run. Each computer I’ve tried results in an odd error code in the repair program. I also realized reinstalling software is going to be tricky without a CD drive on that machine. I think my best option at this point is to sell out and take it to a repair shop.
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:54 am
Now would be a good time to copy the contents to another drive, hard, DVD or whatever else is handy. It’s almost the first rule of drives behaving in strange ways.
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hey James!!!!
Done already. = >
Did I tell you my CD drive broke when I was doing a backup a few weeks ago? Just my luck … ha ha ha
June 23rd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
So that’s how you broke the CD… died in a good cause and now you have an excuse to get a DVD writer instead.
June 26th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Actually, it really was a DVD burner. I guess I just haven’t tried to burn enough DVDs … And it’s now at the shop. I miss it already. *sniffles*