How many versions of os9.1 is osx supposed to have?

Question

Is my G3 supposed to have two versions of OS 9? Running classic brings up a previous system and another system I installed, because of trouble getting on a wireless network at home. Disk repair always repairs two rrwww..twi uid files..etc. Also is DiskWarrior the best to repair and remount my Lacie 250 external harddrive? Is there a PCI card to maintain a connection to a windows wireless network? I also live near a powerful radio tower. This causes my connection to run slow and drop.
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Blkcharger
Welcome to the Discussions.
DiskWarrior has such a good reputation that it is in danger of being thought to be what it is not, and then to be blamed for not doing what it is not designed to do. Alsoft's DW is a file utility, not a disk utility like ATTO's, FWB's, Intech's and La Cie's.
DW does not even touch the logical structures of a HDD. Its business is solely with file organization on the volume that you see on the desktop, which is only the visible one of several partitions on a drive. DW works wondrous well at creating an entirely new file directory from scratch (ie it does not attempt to 'repair' a corrupt file directory), and, only after doing this, it can also repair the boot blocks (pointers to the blest System Folder) on one of the invisible partitions. DW, in fact, cannot work at all if the partitioning of your drive is corrupt. DW has no capacity to reinstall or replace the hard disk's driver.
Disk utilities, by contrast, are concerned to erase, format, partition and polish your drive's invisible logical structures, and to install a driver. Some of them may spare a passing glance at your data in the visible partition, but disk utilities are not primarily concerned with what is stored on a disk so much as with how and where it is stored. Their finest work of preparation or drive rescue (except for driver installation) usually results in total loss of all data.
In the light of all this you will see that DW is something to use to attend to your stored data after you have repaired and mounted your LaCie drive with Apple's Drive Setup, or better, LaCie's Silverlining v6.5.4 (which includes a FireWire bridge update). v6.5.1 should have come with the drive (on CD), and the updater 6.5.4 is downloadable. Your stored data will survive installation of a disk driver or new bridge firmware. They will be totally destroyed by reformatting/repartitioning the drive. The distinctions are important.
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