Confused System Disk

Background, I share a studio with other mac user. His mac died again and is in the apple store being repaired, While this has being going on he has being using my mac by swooping the hard-drives. We both have 2 internal drives so 2 out 2 in.
All straight forward enough, however this morning he swapped the hard-drive while my system was running but sleep. and now his drive is not responding. The computer just shuts down when you trying to boot, although thankfully my drive still works perfectly. Disk utility can see it but can fix it. Currently running disk warrior has being running for around a hour into re building the directory, and has found lots of over lap file (221 so far). Any bright ideas if this doesn't work??
Cheer
Mike

Background, I share a studio with other mac user. His
mac died again and is in the apple store being
repaired
While this has being going on he has being
using my mac by swooping the hard-drives. We both
have 2 internal drives so 2 out 2 in.
Are the two machines the same model? Hardware differences can sometimes cause problems when you do this.
All straight forward enough, however this morning he
swapped the hard-drive while my system was running
but sleep.
Ouch....
and now his drive is not responding. The
computer just shuts down when you trying to boot,
although thankfully my drive still works perfectly.
I'm going to speculate that whatever was in memory, (or the system thought was in memory and VM space) was written back to the drive(s) during the wake-up process. In turn, this likely corrupted part of his drive.
Disk utility can see it but can fix it. Currently
running disk warrior has being running for around a
hour into re building the directory, and has found
lots of over lap file (221 so far). Any bright ideas
if this doesn't work??
overlap files/crosslinked files are nasty. Means the system thinks 2 files are trying to occupy the same space (which they are not supposed to do)
If DW can fix it, you can try (after powering down):
reinstall your drives
install his drives
boot from CD
set your drive as boot location.
Once booted to your HD, access his and backup what you can.

Similar Messages

System Disk Name Change - Restore Old Files?

The name of a friend's main system disk was accidentally changed some time ago. The backup sets from both the old name and new name are still in TM under the same computer name. When we look at the backup sets they appears as (the leading dots are just to show the folder hierarchy since consecutive spaces are deleted):
Backup.backupsdb
..computer_name
....2009-01-01-timecode
......Macintosh\ HD
....2009-06-01-timecode
......New\ Disk\ Name
When we go in to TM to restore, we can see the backup sets that match the current disk name but not the ones with the old disk name.
How can we go about restoring files that existed when the disk had the old name? Selecting "Browse Other TM Disks" does not show the backup sets with the old disk name.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Ed

OK, here is the whole story as I understand it (this is a friend's iMac).
The drive was originally named "Machintosh HD". There are backup sets going back to August, 2008 where the only folder under the date folder in Backups.backupdb is named "Machintosh HD".
In late August, 2008, the internal drive was renamed " `1| ". The only folder in the date folders in Backups.backupdb is named " `1| ".
Two weeks ago we installed a new, larger internal HD. At that time, we discovered the problem with the drive name and renamed it "Machintosh HD". We are now able to restore from any backup where the folder in the date folders in Backups.backupdb is named "Machintosh HD".
For the time period from late August, 2008 - August, 2009 TM greys out the dates for the backup sets. It will not allow us to restore from them.
Prior to renaming the " `1| " drive, we could restore from any backup set between late August, 2008 - August 2009. We were not able to restore from the backup sets prior to August, 2008 where the name was "Machintosh HD".
It appears that TM wants to see a directory that matches the internal drive name in order to allow a restore from it.
I'm sorry for the confusion on the names. I have been using Unix systems for years and automatically include a \ when I type a file or directory name that includes a space.
Ed

Portege 3440CT - 'Insert system disk ...' message occurs at the start-up

Hi there,
I have a toshiba 3440CT, i dont know what is wrong with it at all and im completly confused! When i switch it on it comes up with the toshiba display and then goes to a black screen and says "Insert system disk in drive. press any key when ready....." does anybody know what i can do to make it run on windows 98 again or Xp hopefully? Could you give me a step by step guide in how to fix my laptop please.
Thanks much appreciated
Jat Gill

this message occurs when your HD is not recognised. Does the problem suddenly come up ??
there are several possiblities :
a: the bootsector of your HD is corrupted, than it can be solved by re-partitioning (FDISK) and re-formatting the HD
b: your HD is defective
c: your IDE-controller is defective
if possible you could take out the HD and try to read it in a USB-2,5" hd-case

System Image Restore Fails "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found"

Greetings
                                    - Our critical server image backup Fails on one
server -
Two 2008 R2 servers. Both do a nightly "Windows Server Backup" of Bare Metal Recovery, System State, C:, System Reserved partition, to another storage hard drive on the same machine as the source. Active Directory is on the C: The much larger D: data
partition on each source hard drive is not included.
Test recovery by disconnecting 500G System drive, booting from 2008R2 Install DVD, recovering to a new 500G SATA hard drive.
Server A good.
Server B fails. It finds the backed-up image, & then we can select the date we want. As soon as the image restore is beginning and the timeline appears, it bombs with "The system image restore failed. No disk that can be used for recovering the system
disk can be found." There is a wordy Details message but none of it seems relevant (we are not using USB etc).
At some point after this, in one (or two?) of the scenarios below, (I forget exactly where) we also got :
"The system image restore failed. (0x80042403)"
The destination drive is Not "Excluded".
Used   diskpart clean   to remove volumes from destination drive. Recovery still errored.
Tried a second restore-to drive, same make/model Seagate ST3500418AS, fails.
Tried the earliest dated B image rather than the most recent, fail.
The Server B backups show as "Success" each night.
Copied image from B to the same storage drive on A where the A backup image is kept, and used the A hardware to attempt restore. Now only the latest backup date is available (as would occur normally if we had originally saved the backup to a network location).
Restore still fails.         It looks like its to do with the image rather than with the hardware.
Tried unticking "automatically check and update disk error info", still fail.
Server A SRP 100MB C: 50.6GB on Seagate ST3500418AS 465.76GB Microsoft driver 6.1.7600.16385   write cache off
Server B SRP 100MB C: 102GB on Seagate ST3500418AS 465.76GB Microsoft driver 6.1.7600.16385   write cache off
Restore-to hard drive is also Seagate ST3500418AS.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7repair/thread/e855ee43-186d-4200-a032-23d214d3d524      Some people report success after diskpart clean, but not us.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/31595afd-396f-4084-b5fc-f80b6f40dbeb
"If your destination disk has a lower capacity than the source disk, you need to go into the disk manager and shrink each partition on the source disk before restoring." Doesnt apply here.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=439&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=4
for 0x80042403 says "The solution is really quite simple: the destination drive is of a lower capacity than the image's source drive." I cant see that here.
Thank you so much.

Hello,
1. While recovering the OS to the new Hard disk, please don't keep the original boot disk attached to the System. There is a Disk signature for each hard disk. The signature will collide if the original boot disk signature is assigned to the new disk.
You may attach the older disk after recovering the OS. If you want to recover data to the older disk then they should be attached as they were during backup.
2. Make sure that the new boot disk is attached as the First Boot disk in hardware (IDE/SATA port 0/master) and is the first disk in boot order priority.
3. In Windows Recovery Env (WinRE) check the Boot disk using: Cmd prompt -> Diskpart.exe -> Select Disk = System. This will show the disk where OS restore will be attempted. If the disk is different than the intended 2 TB disk then swap the disks in
correct order in the hardware.
4. Please make sure that the OS is always recovered to the System disk. (Due to an issue: BMR might recover the OS to some other disk if System disk is small in size. Here the OS won't boot. If you belive this is the case, then you should attach the
bigger sized disk as System disk and/or exclude other disks from recovery). Disk exclusion is provided in System Image Restore/Complete PC Restore UI/cmdline.
5. Make sure that Number and Size of disks during restore match the backup config. Apart from boot volumes, some other volumes are also considered critical if there are services/roles installed on them. These disks will be marked critical for recovery and
should be present with minimum size requirement.
6. Some other requirements are discussed in following newsgroup threads:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/871a0216-fbaf-4a0c-83aa-1e02ae90dbe4
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/9a082b90-bd7c-46f8-9eb3-9581f9d5efdd
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/11d8c552-a841-49ac-ab2e-445e6f95e704
Regards,
Vikas Ranjan [MSFT]
------- This information is provided as-is without any warranties, implicit or explicit.-------

Cannot delete Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx from an old system disk

Hi, I am running a Windows 8 64 bit system with the most current version of Flash installed, whatever that is, since I blindly accept whatever update Adobe sends to me. My problem is that I cannot delete the Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx file from an old system disk where I have deleted everything else in the Windows folder except the Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx file.
I have seen very similar posts by Krischu on November 27, 2013 "Cannot delete/remove Flash32_11_9_900_117.ocx" and by Gdstuart on January 22, 2014 "How to delete Flash32_11_9_900_170,ocx," and I have tried the "takeown" method and the FileASSASSIN method suggested by MikeM to both of those posts, but my Flash.ocx file just won't go away.
I am the only user of this PC, and my user account describes me as an administrator, but I keep getting the "You need to provide admistrator permission to delete this file" when I try to delete it.
Does anyone know how to delete this file without doing what Krischu did by loading a Ubuntu system?
Thanks for any thoughts!

Well Pat, I definitely do filter what Microsoft tries to load on my system, for example, their insistence in trying to sneak in Bing. Either way, I keep my system up to date constantly.
Do you understand that the file I am dealing with is on a separate disk from my system disk? I don't see any way that the OS would automatically delete files that are not part of the current OS.
I took the disks from my old PC and installed them inside of my new PC. The old system was Windows 7 32 bit, and my new system is Windows 8 64 bit. As I said, there is only one user on my new system, me, and I am the administrator, so there is no "original Windows Administrator password" other than the one that I use every day. The only thing that I can think of is that the file is linked to my old admin user name from the W7 system, but even if that is the case, then why wouldn't the "takeown" method give me ownership?

Time Machine doesn't back up system disk but does complete second disk

I have set up Time Machine to back up my system disk and one additional internal drive. Two other internal drives are excluded. The backup disk is external. On the initial backup Time Machine gets only one file from the system drive even though it has recognized that there are 121.5 GB included on that drive, but it backs up all 133 GB from the second drive. BTW, I haven't excluded anything but the two other drives. Here's the log from TM Buddy:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Aeronomy1
Backup content size: 121.5 GB excluded items size: 3.5 MB for volume Macintosh HD
Backup content size: 133.6 GB excluded items size: 0 bytes for volume Aeronomy1
No pre-backup thinning needed: 311.66 GB requested (including padding), 792.03 GB available
Copied 1 files (0 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copied 2411 files (133.4 GB) from volume Aeronomy1.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
I've double-checked that the drive and partition are properly formatted with a GUID partition table. The only thing I can't do is turn off the antivirus for the backup drive--the system administrator has eliminated the ability to modify the Symantec Antivirus app. But since it is working in general, it wouldn't seem that is an issue.
Any help is appreciated for getting my main drive backed up!

Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Can I create a system disk on one machine, and swap it into another?

I just reinstalled the Win 7 Pro operating system, using lenovo install disks, on my 3820/K1000m W530. I may end up getting a 3840QM/K2000M W530, and wanted to know if I can just swap the disk I just made into the new machine, this avoiding the issue of re-creating the disk. I have Windows Office 2013 on the thing. I was hoping to
1) Deactivate Windows 2013 (and adobe creative suite) on the source machine from the source disk.
2) Physically Install a clean Samsung 850 Pro 500 into the new target machine.
3) Put the source disk in a usb-based disk case and attach it to the target machine.
4) Boot to a diskcopy program from the optical drive on the target machine.
5) Copy the system disk, with all my ancillary programs and such, onto the target machine
6) Restore the source disk to the source machine.
7) Boot the target machine and (here's what I'm hoping) have the target machine validate/activate windows 7
8) reactivate office on the target machine, and reinstall the Adobe license
9) reactivate office on the source machine
I would then have two functional machines, a main (target) and a spare.
Will this work? Or must I install win 7 from scratch?
IF this is not possible, do the W530 Bioses have a windows s/n that is version specific? In other words, if I can dig up Windows Ultimate (I'd like to get bitlocker), can I install that instead of pro?
Thanks!
Jim
Two W530s, i7-3820QM, 2.7Ghz, 500Gb Samsung 850 Pro, 1920x1080, nVidia K2000m/100m, Win 7 Pro
T510, M540, 2.53Ghz, 1Tb hybrid drive, Win 7 Pro
Two T61ps, T9500/T9300, 2.6GHz, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 Evo, 1900x1200, nVidia 256Mb FX 570m, Win 7 Pro/Ultimate

I have to disagree with you, DSperber. First of all Microsoft doesn't care if you install Windows, as long as you have a valid COA and your version matches that COA. You can actually download the Windows 7 ISOs for the Windows version you need! I understand that they legally require a COA on each Win machine sold, to allow folks to rebuild blown systems. This is discussed on the microsoft Windows 7 forum:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/where-can-i-download-wind...
You can download the ISO, load it, and then use the COA key to validate. Apparently while Microsoft requires this printed COA, they prefer it to be used only in extreme cases, as when the oem SLP does not work. I take this to mean that Microsoft WANTS you to install the OEM software, rather than bother them. Because if you use the printed COA activation key, you have to contact MS to validate it.
Some more information is here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/what-is-different-between...
The point is, the COA sticker on the computer vouches that you are entitled to have a valid Windows license on that computer. It may be that Lenovo doesn't want you to use the recovery disks from another computer. If so, your note would seem to imply that Lenovo is actually more restrictive about their software than Microsoft!
I understand that using the recovery disks from another computer may seem to deprive Lenovo of the 50 bucks they get when you order them. I wish I could have saved that money several times. But hey, these disks aren't customized. You call in with your model number and serial number, and Lenovo sends out recovery disks with the approprate version of windows originally sold with the machine (sorry, Vista customers!), with the OEM SLP. So its not a licensing issue, it's a (very small) revenue issue. And every time someone is able to resurrect their Lenovo machine without a hassle and without that $50, it's worth far, far more in terms of good will. Perhaps saving that 50 bucks is what pushes me over the edge to buy a new W541 or W550!
Jim
I currently have:
2 T61ps, both Pennryn, both 8Gb Crucial RAM, both 1Tb hybrid drives, T9500 and
1 T510, (I forget the specs)
2 W530s, both i7-8420QM, 16Gb and 8Gb, both Samsung 850 Pro 256Gb SSDs, K1000m and K2000m, with 1080p screens.
Two W530s, i7-3820QM, 2.7Ghz, 500Gb Samsung 850 Pro, 1920x1080, nVidia K2000m/100m, Win 7 Pro
T510, M540, 2.53Ghz, 1Tb hybrid drive, Win 7 Pro
Two T61ps, T9500/T9300, 2.6GHz, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 Evo, 1900x1200, nVidia 256Mb FX 570m, Win 7 Pro/Ultimate

My Windows 7 Professional desktop system hard disk got corrupted and I took the opportunity to install an SSD for a new system disk and reinstall Windows. The system is up and running on the SSD, with my old system disk now used for storage as it is stil

My Windows 7 Professional desktop system hard disk got corrupted and I took the opportunity to install an SSD for a new system disk and reinstall Windows. The system is up and running on the SSD, with my old system disk now used for storage as it is still readable. The only Adobe product I have reinstalled so far is Reader XI but I would like to reinstall Elements 8 and Acrobat 9 without taking up more licences as both are also installed on my laptop. Can you point me to the best way to do this? - Thanks

If you have the two allotted activations already and one was lost on the hard drive that failed then you need to contact Adobe Support thru chat and ask them to reset your activations.
For the link below click the Still Need Help? option in the blue area at the bottom and choose the chat option...
Serial number and activation chat support (non-CC)
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )

Kernel_data_inpage_error & non-system disk error but everything running OK for a while

Hi,
can someone please help me out since I have a deadline in coming up and need my laptop to work properly!
I have windows 7 64bit running on a HP ProBook 6550b. My PC runs fine for about an hour, after an hour the screen freezes for 10 seconds and then I get the KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR. He reboots and then I get the message 'Non-system disk or disk error'
Then I just shut down my PC and start it back up and everything works perfectly fine again for about 45 minutes. Then again the same problem.
I have tried multiple things. I executed a chkdsk /f /r This did find some problems. I tried and followed some instructions about changing the paging file settings. I ran a memtest. No errors with the memtest.
Finally I went in the BIOS and I did a HP harddrive test. This one failed almost immediately but I can just close the BIOS and start my PC and windows runs fine.
What can I do to resolve this problem other then buying a new harddrive. (I intend to buy a new laptop anyways in couple of months after I have passed my deadline and test period has finished. But for short term I really needs this to work.)
Many thanks!!
Johan
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Just in case someone else encouters this.
The problem was due to my SSD M4 hard drive. There was a problem with the firmware causing hourly crashes after the disk has been in use for more then +-5200 hours. Upgrading the firmware fixed this for me.

No system disk appears on the desktop. Help please.

No system disk appears on the desktop.
Here all external drives.
I rebootedholding the shift key.
I have checked the Finder / Preferences / General is selected to show the hard drives, also in Finder / Preferences / Sidebar is selected.
I have opened the Disk Utility application and if you see the system disk, I have told you to check and tells me that the disk has no problems.
Otherwise the iMac works perfectly, but Safari, which is all I have used since the problem besides Disk Utility sometimes gets stuck, and has trouble reconnecting.
Help, please.
Greetings from Valencia, Spain

Hello Jan:
Thanks for the reply.
I do not know how important it is, well, I've always been there and now I do not know because it is not, simply so I have direct access to everything on my iMac.
Suddenly disappeared, which means that something is wrong with the computer.
No, the sidebar does not appear.
Thanks for the reply. Greetings from Valencia, Spain

I have installed new hard drive to iMac intel 2007 model and all I get on the screen is a grey question mark, tried system disk and now that's stuck in drive and just spinning around, any help please

Sorry put all question on subject line. As I said fitted new hard drive, but all I get is a folder with a flashing grey question mark. Tried system disk but that is now just spinning around in DVD drive and I can't get it out. Any help with these problems would help

Sounds like the new drive is not being recognized. Could be it's a SATA3 drive with a 6Gb/s transfer rate and needs to be jumpered down to 3. But if the 2007 is 1.5, it may not work at all, even if jumpered down. Other possibility is a not properly secured cable or a cable that's come loose from the logic board.
What is the model of the 2007 Mac? What's the new drive? Did you do the installation or was it done by a shop?
You can find your model here. Look next to Standard Hard Drive:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/index-imac.html
Message was edited by: WZZZ

Non system disk error or disk error when turned on

I have a BIG problem with my laptop, it doesnt load my operating system! :dead:
I have a 100GB hard drive in my laptop and it was working perfectly fine until a blue screen came up and turned my laptop off!! I turned it back on and it came up with a message saying: ''non-system disk or disk error; Replace and strike any key when ready'' Before that, I have the RAM of 256MB . The RAM themselves had a test and showed no problem at all. When I did go into bios, it didnt give me an option where my laptop hard drive could do a self test, when it should have. So i decided to buy a new hard drive which was 160GB seagate. I put it into my laptop and had my Windows XP CD ready to put into my CD drive to install. BUT...........the same message came up ''non-system disk or disk error; Replace and strike any key when ready'' and didnt read my CD. It keeps doing it now and doesn't read anything from the CD SOMEONE PLEASE...............HELP!!!..................!!!! Does anyone know what I am talking about? If so, please help. Thanks

I kind of know but we really need to know what kind of laptop you are working on here. Seems like it is an old one with XP and 256 megs of RAM.

Windows 7 Backup - System image includes non system disk

Hi,
I am trying out windows 7 backup, hoping at last that I won't need a 3rd party backup solution. So far so bad!
My first problem is how ridicilously slow the backup is, but this has been discussed at length elsewhere. My second problem is the backup stalls when I try to backup a folder which I know has got various bits of malware in. I am an IT pro and use the files in this folder for testing purposes. OK fair enough I guess, although I think the backup should handle this event a bit more elegantly. So I've zipped and password protected the offending files to hide them from the AV (security essentials by the way)
The final problem which I just can't understand is that when I try to create an image of my system drive, backup wants to add my D drive (which is purely a data drive) to the image. My D drive is huge and I don't want to include it in a system image. I keep my system drive lean and mean for exactly this purpose but now I can't back it up because the total size of C and D drives combined exceed the capacity of my backup drive.
I know for a fact that the D drive has no consequence to the system boooting or operating, I have disconnected it and windows boots up just fine. In computer management the D Drive is not showing up as a system drive, so why does windows think it is? And why isn't there a power user mode wher I can choose exactly what I want in a system image, I understand you're trying to make windows easy to use for the average Joe, but this lack of functionality and in depth control feels more like a Mac than windows.... and I hate macs.
So can anyone shed any light as to why my D drive is being flagged as a system disk, otherwise it's back to 3rd party solutions... AGAIN
Thanks

There is a solution.
Microsoft usually have stuff that is not documented. For example Windows server 2008 comes with a command line utility that will allow the backup (in this case a shadow copy) of any drive you wish to a backup target. The program is wbadmin.exe.
According to some Microsoft sources it doesn't exists on Windows 7 but let me assure you that it does; I use it all the time, specifically to get round the problems you have described in your posts.
I build VHD images and test them until I am happy with them and then I back them up as a system image and then rewrite them on to a system drive. I can only do this with wbadmin.exe
To backup your c: to your d: (or what ever other drive you have space on in this case we will use d:)
- Open a command prompt as Administrator
- Run the following command:
Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:d: -include:c: -quiet
- You should get output something like this:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.
Retrieving volume information...
This will back up volume System(C:) to D:.
The backup operation to D: is starting.
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (1%).
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (29%).
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (57%).
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (79%).
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (98%).
The backup of volume System(C:) successfully completed.
The backup operation successfully completed.
Summary of the backup operation:
The backup of volume System(C:) successfully completed.
That should complete the backup. It should create a WindowsImageBackup folder in the dirve you backed up to.
Restore as normal.
There is one small but very important caveat: If you have any system files or programs that are linked to the system drive on your d: drive or elsewhere you may find that when you restore your system the links are broken. it should not happen if you
have not made any changes before you restore but if you are like me who use the d: to store the bulk of the program files and just use the c: to store the system OS (on SSD... the need for speed! :) ) then you need to be careful... be warned!!
That's all folks!
Bick

Is it possible to get a system disk for my old iMac without the receipt?

I use an iMac at work and it's really slowing down. (10 minutes at least to open any application) I have 3 GB of ram and use only a quarter of my hard drive space. I've looked everywhere for the startup disk to no avail. I've used TechTool Deluxe and it says that the directory needs repair. When I used DiskUtitlity last, it says that the hard drive needs repair and to restart with the system disk and use Disk Repair. If anyone has any thoughts on this matter, I'm all ears.

No receipt is needed assuming they are still available for your vintage machine. All you need is a credit card and the machine's serial number. Then call AppleCare and if they are available they will ship a replacement set for a nominal cost.

In need of system disks for HD repair

The machine's been a little slow lately, so I randomly decided to "verify disk" in disk utility and got this response:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 1870686 instead of 1866823)
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD” because the following error was encountered:
The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
I realize that I need to repair the disk from another volume. I purchased this computer 2 years ago from a private seller, and do not have the original system disks. Do I need OS 10.3 to do this since Tiger is only an upgrade? Do I need just the DVD or what? And where can I obtain these disks? Should I just head straight to DiskWarrior instead? Thanks
-mJ

What are the capabilities of the retail disks? Am I able to do a clean install from them if necessary, or would I need disks with my specific build number for that? Some people on craigslist are selling the retail disks for 10.4, but I believe its just the DVD. Ideally I know I should have both disks, but in this event can I be able to buy only the one I need? The only disks that I see sold privately are build-specific sets....just seems a little much to spend 300 bucks for the Tiger box just for volume repair. Just making sure before any purchases. Thanks
-mJ
Message was edited by: Mckendre Jay
Message was edited by: Mckendre Jay

Confused System Disk

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for