No startup drive found?

Having trouble with startup drives. First one (my original startup disk) couldnt be found after a software upgrade (not sure which or what, I always accept when I am told there is one to instal). Booted from System DVD and re installed OS 10.6.8 on another drive. All was working again until moments ago when I zapped the PRam and now this drive isnt launching OS. Something is up. Anyone experience this in the last few days? I fear that if I go through the DVD install, and data transfer that this may happen again.
Thanks

Boot to the Installer DVD, but answer only the "what Language" question and wait a quarter minute for the MenuBar to be drawn.
Choose Disk Utility from the Utilities Menu.
Select your drive Mechanism (eg Hitachi...) and click "Repair Disk". Then choose the Boot Volume (Macintosh HD if you did not change it) and click "Repair Disk". Post any unresolved error message here for further assistance.
Then select the Boot Volume and click "Repair Permissions" you can safely ignore these messages unless they appear in RED.
Restart and hold down the Option key. Every bootable drive should be shown. Select the one you want and proceed.

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Trying to link existing mac pro time machine backup to cloned startup drive

Hi
I have recently had to replace my startup drive on my Mac Pro as it was failing. I used SuperDuper! for this, and the clone is working fine as my new startup drive. I then went to run my next time machine backup (i backup to a time capsule), and time machine connected to the existing backup but wanted to backup everything as if backing up for the first time.
So i did a bit of researching around, and found this hint:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090213071015789
which changes the UUID registered with time machine, from the old drive to the new drive, so that it thinks that it's the old drive and carries on where it left off. i followed the instructions in the hint carefully and everything seemed to go right (i had to copy fsaclctl from an old leopard backup as it is missing in snow leopard). but when i ran the next backup again time machine wanted to backup everything.
towards the bottom of the hint, there is a comment about the UUID generated under snow leopard, as follows:
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So if anyone can help me get this working right, using the method described in the hint, or some other method, i would be very grateful. Seems like my scenario isn't that uncommon (changing a startup drive), and it baffles me that there isn't a more straightforward way to make this work.
thanks
nick

chadnchady wrote:
3. I am having troubles copying files(iphoto library) from my timemachine backup on to my imac.
That's correct. Time Machine backups retain the original ownership and permissions. So one user doesn't have access to another user's data. Usually, that's a good thing.
4. I don't need anything else except a few particular files, but everytime i try drag or copy it gives me the 'no privilege/permission error'.
Your best bet may be to use +Migration Assistant+ to migrate the user account and selected data. Then log on as that user and use/copy the data as desired. See the pink box in #19 of Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

"startup drive full" error - help

I have gotten a "startup drive full" error a couple of times while using Microsoft Word. It usually occurs when I am trying to save something. My drives are no where near full. What is causing this? How do I fix it?

One of the reasons (when one exists) for a startup drive full message,
could be if the computer has several temporary files and virtual memory
files on the hard disk drive; this could happen if you have insufficient
installed chip RAM and the computer is using HDD free-space as RAM.
And if you are multi-tasking in Mac OS X, there may be a point where
the drive is fully in-use. The utility "Activity Monitor" could tell you what
is happening in the system at different intervals and perhaps you could
tell what is running in there and using a lot of virtual memory; and also
what that utility says is going on elsewhere at the same time.
You may have to boot the computer from the Installer disc and use
the version of Disk Utility on that (in the Installer's menubar is where
you find options, other than running the installer on that disc) to run
'repair disk.' There also may be some caches and other files on the
drive which are not properly being cleared after quitting applications
or after saving works in progress.
A variety of maintenance tasks can be performed to help the Mac
run better; and maybe these are overdue. I use an easy way out
and do not boot into the single user or other modes to do house-
keeping chores in OS X 10; the software (runs free) I choose to
have do these, on occasion, is called OnyX and is a download
from Titanium Software online. An easy search, to get there and
see the correct download for the OSX version your machine runs.
The OnyX 'automation' selection has several check-boxes and
a few times a year, I run all of the options shown there; otherwise
I only run the default set, and then have the utility automatically
restart itself afterward. There are settings in the OnyX preferences.
Not sure what else may be going on in the computer's hard disk
drive; but to use the boot/install disc's Disk Utility to 'repair disk'
and also to verify or see the status of SMART, may tell you if
the hard disk drive is starting to fail. (Although it could stop work-
ing and not say it was failing; checking anyway, is easy enough.)
If you have a third-party disk utility such as Drive Genius or
maybe DiskWarrior, these may be able to check and repair
some aspects of the hard disk drive's files. Some of these
tools are better at some tasks than others; and so I am not
sure which one(s) are best at specific jobs. Each is a bit
different and so there are times where having more than one
could be very handy... if one knew what they did, and when
to use one over another third-party disk utility. (I don't!)
At some point, it is very handy to have an externally enclosed
FireWire hard disk drive, and be knowledgeable and practiced
in making bootable clones of the computer's hard disk drive
and the contents there in. This can give you great backups
with the ability to clone the complete disk image back as it
was, but on to a repaired or low-level reformatted HDD. I use
a free-running utility to clone, Carbon Copy Cloner.
Hopefully a fix as simple as using the Disk Utility found in
the installer (hold C key on startup with disc in optical drive)
and do not launch the installer, use Disk Utility from menubar;
and 'repair disk' may help. If there is a defect in the Hard Disk
Drive (HDD) a repair may help; or a more invasive approach
may be required, to include other tools in the Disk Utility, which
could totally erase all your stuff plus the OS from that hard drive.
Not sure how much experience you have in any of this; so at
this point...
Good luck & happy computing!

"no usable drives found"

When attempting to seliect a File History drive, this message comes up "No usuable drives found, although there is a 1TB external drive connected with four volumes.

Hi Doug,
Make sure the file history and its dependencies service(DCOM Server Process Launcher
and RPC Endpoint Mapper) startup type is "Automatic" and work fine.
Then select another network location or another local disk drive and turn on File history to see if it could work.
If I could work fine, it indicates the file history feature in your computer is without problem. The root should be your location keep a history of your files problem.
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How do I choose a default startup drive?

I have two startup drives on my Hard Drive. One is Snow Leopard and the other is Leopard. I need Leopard for some printing issues with Photoshop and Epson. How do I choose a default startup drive? Most of the time I want the Snow Leopard drive at startup but it seems to always start up on Leopard. I need to always hold down the option key at startup. Sometimes I forget.

noondaywitch wrote:
System Preferences > Startup Dive > select the drive with 10.6.x I suspect you may need to do that for both systems. Click the lock to prevent further changes, then do an option-boot and ensure it'll let you start from the other.
Macs store a reference to the default startup drive set in System Preferences > Startup Drive in PRAM, so you don't have to set it individually for each drive or partition -- as long as the selected one is available at startup time, that is the one the Mac will start up from. (Otherwise, it will be the first available one found. If none capable of starting up the Mac are found instead the flashing slashed circle with the question mark in it won't go away, indicating the Mac is still waiting for you to make one available, for instance by powering up an attached external drive or inserting a bootable DVD.)
The option key startup method temporarily overrides this & allows you to choose another drive or partition, but just for that startup -- the next time you start up normally, it will revert to the selected one.
Also, the lock in System Preferences has nothing to do with making preference settings permanent or persistent. It is just a security feature to prevent unauthorized users from making changes from an already logged in user account. For instance, it makes no difference if the lock is closed or open at startup time, because that is before the OS is running or able to check preference file settings stored on disks. During the early stages of the boot process, code resident in firmware checks for depressed keys & buttons before loading the OS from the default source set in PRAM. This is how it decides if it should instead run the Startup Manager (evoked by the option key), first eject a CD or DVD (evoked by the eject key or primary mouse button), or start up from an alternate source like an installer DVD (evoked by the C key).

Disk Warrior can't see startup drive

I have a 2008 iMac running Mountain Lion and have not been able to start up from the internal hard drive since a system crash. Following the advice on these forums, I tried Disk Utility, but it could not repair the problems it found with the disk. I purchased Disk Warrior and booted from its CD, but it cannot see the startup disk either. Previously, I had been able to boot from the Mountain Lion recovery partition and see the afflicted drive from another machine in Disk Utility when connected in Firewire target disk mode. But having tried both since running Disk Warrior, the affected drive no longer shows up. Is there anything else I can do to try to get Disk Warrior to see the drive and repair/recover files from it?
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Thanks for the tip. I figured out that as the drive is not connected via USB, then of course it won't show in Disk Utility. And the Lacie Cloudbox I bought only has Ethernet.
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No suitable driver found error while connecting to remote IBM DB2 database.

While trying to connect to IBM DB2 database on a remote location, though the connection was successful from 'Application Resources', following trace could be recovered while performing 'Run' from 'AppModule':
ERROR:
(oracle.jbo.DMLException) JBO-26061: Error while opening JDBC connection.
----- Level 1: Detail 0 -----
(java.sql.SQLException) No suitable driver found for jdbc:as400://XX.XXX.XX.XXX;naming=system;libraries=TEST;translate binary=true;prompt=false
[891] (oracle.adf.model.bc4j.DataControlFactoryImpl.SyncMode = Immediate
[892] Creating a new pool resource
[893] BC4JDeployPlatform: LOCAL
[894] Propertymanager: skipping reload of file and system based properties
[895] {{ begin Loading BC4J properties
[896] -----------------------------------------------------------
[897] BC4J Property jbo.default.language='en' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[898] BC4J Property jbo.default.country='US' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[899] Skipping empty Property jbo.default.locale.variant from System Default
[900] BC4J Property DeployPlatform='LOCAL' -->(SessionImpl) from Client Environment
[901] Skipping empty Property ConnectionMode from System Default
[902] Skipping empty Property HostName from System Default
[903] Skipping empty Property ConnectionPort from System Default
[904] BC4J Property jbo.locking.mode='optimistic' -->(MetaObjectManager) from Client Environment
[905] BC4J Property jbo.txn.disconnect_level='0' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[906] Skipping empty Property ApplicationPath from System Default
[907] BC4J Property AppModuleJndiName='model.AppModule' -->(SessionImpl) from Client Environment
[908] Skipping empty Property java.naming.security.principal from System Default
[909] Skipping empty Property java.naming.security.credentials from System Default
[910] Skipping empty Property jbo.user.principal from System Default
[911] BC4J Property jbo.simulate.remote='false' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[912] BC4J Property jbo.security.context='oracle.security.jazn' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[913] Skipping empty Property jbo.object.marshaller from System Default
[914] BC4J Property jbo.use.pers.coll='false' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[915] BC4J Property jbo.pers.max.rows.per.node='70' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[916] BC4J Property jbo.pers.max.active.nodes='30' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[917] BC4J Property jbo.validation.threshold='10' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[918] BC4J Property jbo.sparse.array.threshold='20' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[919] Skipping empty Property jbo.pcoll.mgr from System Default
[920] BC4J Property jbo.txn_table_name='PS_TXN' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[921] BC4J Property jbo.txn_seq_name='PS_TXN_seq' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[922] BC4J Property jbo.txn_seq_inc='50' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[923] BC4J Property jbo.control_table_name='PCOLL_CONTROL' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[924] BC4J Property jbo.stringmanager.factory.class='use_default' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[925] BC4J Property jbo.domain.date.suppress_zero_time='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[926] BC4J Property jbo.domain.bind_sql_date='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[927] BC4J Property jbo.domain.string.as.bytes.for.raw='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[928] BC4J Property jbo.fetch.mode='AS.NEEDED' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[929] BC4J Property jbo.323.compatible='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[930] BC4J Property jbo.903.compatible='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[931] Skipping empty Property JBODynamicObjectsPackage from System Default
[932] BC4J Property MetaObjectContextFactory='oracle.jbo.mom.xml.DefaultMomContextFactory' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[933] BC4J Property jbo.load.components.lazily='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[934] BC4J Property MetaObjectContext='oracle.jbo.mom.xml.XMLContextImpl' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[935] BC4J Property java.naming.factory.initial='oracle.jbo.common.JboInitialContextFactory' -->(SessionImpl) from Client Environment
[936] BC4J Property IsLazyLoadingTrue='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from Client Environment
[937] BC4J Property oracle.jbo.usemds='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[938] BC4J Property oracle.adfm.usemds='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[939] BC4J Property ActivateSharedDataHandle='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[940] Skipping empty Property HandleName from System Default
[941] Skipping empty Property Factory-Substitution-List from System Default
[942] BC4J Property jbo.project='model.Model' -->(Configuration) from Client Environment
[943] BC4J Property jbo.max.cursors='50' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[944] WARNING: Property jbo.dofailoverset to null
[945] Skipping empty Property jbo.dofailover from null
[946] WARNING: Property jbo.envinfoproviderset to null
[947] Skipping empty Property jbo.envinfoprovider from null
[948] Skipping empty Property jbo.rowid_am_conn_name from System Default
[949] Skipping empty Property jbo.rowid_am_datasource_name from System Default
[950] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.writecookietoclientset to null
[951] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.writecookietoclient from null
[952] WARNING: Property jbo.doconnectionpoolingset to null
[953] Skipping empty Property jbo.doconnectionpooling from null
[954] WARNING: Property jbo.recyclethresholdset to null
[955] Skipping empty Property jbo.recyclethreshold from null
[956] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.dynamicjdbccredentialsset to null
[957] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.dynamicjdbccredentials from null
[958] BC4J Property jbo.ampool.resetnontransactionalstate='true' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[959] BC4J Property jbo.ampool.sessioncookiefactoryclass='oracle.jbo.common.ampool.DefaultSessionCookieFactory' -->(Configuration) from Client Environment
[960] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.connectionstrategyclassset to null
[961] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.connectionstrategyclass from null
[962] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.maxpoolsizeset to null
[963] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.maxpoolsize from null
[964] BC4J Property jbo.ampool.initpoolsize='0' -->(Configuration) from Client Environment
[965] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.monitorsleepintervalset to null
[966] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.monitorsleepinterval from null
[967] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.minavailablesizeset to null
[968] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.minavailablesize from null
[969] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.maxavailablesizeset to null
[970] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.maxavailablesize from null
[971] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.maxinactiveageset to null
[972] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.maxinactiveage from null
[973] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.timetoliveset to null
[974] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.timetolive from null
[975] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.doampoolingset to null
[976] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.doampooling from null
[977] WARNING: Property jbo.ampool.issupportspassivationset to null
[978] Skipping empty Property jbo.ampool.issupportspassivation from null
[979] BC4J Property jbo.ampool.isuseexclusive='true' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[980] BC4J Property jbo.passivationstore='null' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[981] BC4J Property jbo.saveforlater='false' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[982] BC4J Property jbo.snapshotstore.undo='persistent' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[983] BC4J Property jbo.maxpassivationstacksize='10' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[984] BC4J Property jbo.txn.handleafterpostexc='false' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[985] BC4J Property jbo.connectfailover='true' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[986] BC4J Property jbo.datasource_naming_factory='oracle.jbo.server.DataSourceContextFactory' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[987] WARNING: Property jbo.maxpoolcookieageset to null
[988] Skipping empty Property jbo.maxpoolcookieage from null
[989] WARNING: Property PoolClassNameset to null
[990] Skipping empty Property PoolClassName from null
[991] BC4J Property jbo.maxpoolsize='4096' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[992] BC4J Property jbo.initpoolsize='0' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[993] BC4J Property jbo.poolrequesttimeout='30000' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[994] BC4J Property jbo.poolmonitorsleepinterval='600000' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[995] BC4J Property jbo.poolminavailablesize='5' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[996] BC4J Property jbo.poolmaxavailablesize='25' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[997] BC4J Property jbo.poolmaxinactiveage='600000' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[998] BC4J Property jbo.pooltimetolive='-1' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[999] BC4J Property jbo.qcpool.monitorsleepinterval='1800000' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1000] BC4J Property jbo.qcpool.maxinactiveage='900000' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1001] BC4J Property jbo.qcpool.maxweight='-1' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1002] BC4J Property RELEASE_MODE='Stateful' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1003] BC4J Property jbo.assoc.consistent='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1004] BC4J Property jbo.viewlink.consistent='DEFAULT' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1005] BC4J Property jbo.finder.range.size='DEFAULT' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1006] BC4J Property jbo.passivation.TrackInsert='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1007] Skipping empty Property jbo.ViewCriteriaAdapter from System Default
[1008] BC4J Property jbo.SQLBuilder='DB2' -->(MetaObjectManager) from Client Environment
[1009] BC4J Property jbo.ConnectionPoolManager='oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPoolManagerImpl' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1010] BC4J Property jbo.TypeMapEntries='OracleApps' -->(MetaObjectManager) from Client Environment
[1011] Skipping empty Property jbo.sql92.JdbcDriverClass from System Default
[1012] BC4J Property jbo.sql92.LockTrailer='FOR UPDATE' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1013] BC4J Property jbo.jdbc.trace='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1014] BC4J Property jbo.abstract.base.check='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1015] BC4J Property jbo.assoc.where.early.set='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1016] BC4J Property jbo.use.findbykey.for.assoc='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1017] BC4J Property jbo.sql92.DbTimeQuery='select sysdate from dual' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1018] BC4J Property oracle.jbo.defineColumnLength='skipDefines' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1019] BC4J Property jbo.jdbc_bytes_conversion='jdbc' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1020] Skipping empty Property jbo.tmpdir from System Default
[1021] Skipping empty Property jbo.server.internal_connection from System Default
[1022] BC4J Property SessionClass='oracle.jbo.server.SessionImpl' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1023] Skipping empty Property TransactionFactory from System Default
[1024] Skipping empty Property jbo.def.mgr.listener from System Default
[1025] Skipping empty Property jbo.use.global.sub.map from System Default
[1026] BC4J Property jbo.debugoutput='console' -->(Diagnostic) from System Property
[1027] BC4J Property jbo.debug.prefix='DBG: ' -->(Diagnostic) from /oracle/jbo/common/Diagnostic.properties resource
[1028] BC4J Property jbo.logging.show.timing='false' -->(Diagnostic) from /oracle/jbo/common/Diagnostic.properties resource
[1029] BC4J Property jbo.logging.show.function='false' -->(Diagnostic) from /oracle/jbo/common/Diagnostic.properties resource
[1030] BC4J Property jbo.logging.show.level='false' -->(Diagnostic) from /oracle/jbo/common/Diagnostic.properties resource
[1031] BC4J Property jbo.logging.show.linecount='true' -->(Diagnostic) from /oracle/jbo/common/Diagnostic.properties resource
[1032] BC4J Property jbo.logging.trace.threshold='6' -->(Diagnostic) from /oracle/jbo/common/Diagnostic.properties resource
[1033] BC4J Property jbo.jdbc.driver.verbose='false' -->(Diagnostic) from System Default
[1034] Skipping empty Property oracle.home from System Default
[1035] Skipping empty Property oc4j.name from System Default
[1036] Skipping empty Property jbo.shared.txn from System Default
[1037] BC4J Property oracle.adfm.useSharedTransactionForFrame='true' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1038] BC4J Property oracle.adfm.joinNewFrameTransaction='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1039] BC4J Property jbo.ejb.txntimeout='1830' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1040] BC4J Property jbo.ejb.txntype='global' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1041] BC4J Property jbo.ejb.txn.disconnect_on_completion='false' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1042] BC4J Property jbo.ejb.useampool='false' -->(SessionImpl) from Client Environment
[1043] Skipping empty Property oracle.jbo.schema from System Default
[1044] BC4J Property jbo.xml.validation='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1045] BC4J Property ord.RetrievePath='ordDeliverMedia' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1046] BC4J Property ord.HttpMaxMemory='102400' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1047] Skipping empty Property ord.HttpTempDir from System Default
[1048] BC4J Property ord.wmp.classid='clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1049] BC4J Property ord.qp.classid='clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1050] BC4J Property ord.rp.classid='clsid:CFCDAA03-8BE4-11cf-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1051] BC4J Property ord.wmp.codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1052] BC4J Property ord.qp.codebase='http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1053] Skipping empty Property ord.rp.codebase from System Default
[1054] BC4J Property ord.wmp.plugins.page='http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=windows&sbp=mediaplayer&ar=Media&sba=Plugin&' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1055] BC4J Property ord.qp.plugins.page='http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1056] BC4J Property ord.rp.plugins.page='http://www.real.com/player/' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1057] BC4J Property jbo.security.enforce='None' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1058] BC4J Property jbo.security.loginmodule='oracle.security.jazn.oc4j.JAZNUserManager' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1059] Skipping empty Property jbo.security.config from System Default
[1060] BC4J Property jbo.server.useNullDbTransaction='false' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1061] BC4J Property jbo.domain.reopenblobstream='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1062] BC4J Property jbo.server.retainAssocAccessor='false' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1063] BC4J Property jbo.groovy.debug='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1064] BC4J Property jbo.busevent.suspendpublication='false' -->(SessionImpl) from System Default
[1065] BC4J Property oracle.adfm.DefaultEventPolicy='NONE' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1066] BC4J Property oracle.adfm.useRootFrameOnly='false' -->(MetaObjectManager) from System Default
[1067] Copying unknown Client property (user='TESTER') to session
[1068] Copying unknown Client property (FullProxyInterfaceName='model.common.AppModule') to session
[1069] Copying unknown Client property (jbo.applicationmoduleclassname='model.AppModule') to session
[1070] Copying unknown Client property (jbo.jdbc.username='TESTER') to session
[1071] Copying unknown Client property (BC4JConfigName='AppModuleLocal') to session
[1072] Copying unknown Client property (DsPasswd='workout') to session
[1073] Copying unknown Client property (JDBCName='ConnectTo146') to session
[1074] Copying unknown Client property (DsUserName='TESTER') to session
[1075] Copying unknown Client property (name='137E06086E5') to session
[1076] Copying unknown Client property (ApplicationName='model.AppModule') to session
[1077] Copying unknown Client property (LastUsedConfiguration='AppModuleLocal') to session
[1078] Copying unknown Client property (password='*****') to session
[1079] Copying unknown Client property (JDBCDataSource='java:comp/env/jdbc/ConnectTo146DS') to session
[1080] Copying unknown Client property (jbo.jdbc.connectstring='jdbc:as400:/;naming=system;libraries=QTEMP XAN4CDXA XAN4CDEM;translate binary=true;prompt=false') to session
[1081] Copying unknown Client property (DBconnection='jdbc:as400://;naming=system;libraries=QTEMP XAN4CDXA XAN4CDEM;translate binary=true;prompt=false') to session
[1082] Copying unknown Client property (jbo.jdbc.password='*****') to session
[1083] }} finished loading BC4J properties
[1084] -----------------------------------------------------------
[1085] Connected to Oracle JBO Server - Version: 11.1.2.61.83
[1086] mPCollUsePMgr is false
[1087] ViewObjectImpl.mDefaultMaxRowsPerNode is 70
[1088] ViewObjectImpl.mDefaultMaxActiveNodes is 30
[1089] Default locking mode changed to: optimistic
[1090] Created root application module: 'model.AppModule'
[1091] Locale is: 'en_US'
[1092] ApplicationPoolImpl.resourceStateChanged wasn't release related. No notify invoked.
[1093] Trying connection: DataSource='oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPoolDataSource@191d9ad'...
[1094] Using the oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPoolDataSource to acquire a connection...
[1095] Creating a new pool resource
[1096] Trying connection/3: url='jdbc:as400:/*****' user='TESTER' password='*****' ...
[1097] DBTransactionImpl.initTransaction: Login failed
[1098] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:as400:;naming=system;libraries=QTEMP XAN4CDXA XAN4CDEM;translate binary=true;prompt=false
     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:602)
     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
     at oracle.jbo.server.URLConnectionHelper.getConnection(URLConnectionHelper.java:187)
     at oracle.jbo.server.URLConnectionHelper.getConnectionFromDriver(URLConnectionHelper.java:50)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.createConnection(ConnectionPool.java:195)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.instantiateResource(ConnectionPool.java:166)
     at oracle.jbo.pool.ResourcePool.createResource(ResourcePool.java:580)
     at oracle.jbo.pool.ResourcePool.useResource(ResourcePool.java:313)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.getConnectionInternal(ConnectionPool.java:102)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.getConnection(ConnectionPool.java:66)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPoolManagerImpl.getConnection(ConnectionPoolManagerImpl.java:52)
     at oracle.jbo.server.URLConnectionHelper.getConnection(URLConnectionHelper.java:172)
     at oracle.jbo.server.URLConnectionHelper.getConnection(URLConnectionHelper.java:45)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPoolDataSource.getConnection(ConnectionPoolDataSource.java:72)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl.establishNewConnection(DBTransactionImpl.java:964)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl.initTransaction(DBTransactionImpl.java:1147)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl.initTxn(DBTransactionImpl.java:6838)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl2.connectToDataSource(DBTransactionImpl2.java:298)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl2.connectToDataSource(DBTransactionImpl2.java:329)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.DefaultConnectionStrategy.connect(DefaultConnectionStrategy.java:203)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ApplicationPoolMessageHandler.doPoolConnect(ApplicationPoolMessageHandler.java:600)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ApplicationPoolMessageHandler.doPoolMessage(ApplicationPoolMessageHandler.java:417)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ApplicationModuleImpl.doPoolMessage(ApplicationModuleImpl.java:9021)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.ApplicationPoolImpl.sendPoolMessage(ApplicationPoolImpl.java:4606)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.ApplicationPoolImpl.prepareApplicationModule(ApplicationPoolImpl.java:2536)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.ApplicationPoolImpl.doCheckout(ApplicationPoolImpl.java:2346)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.ApplicationPoolImpl.useApplicationModule(ApplicationPoolImpl.java:3245)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.SessionCookieImpl.useApplicationModule(SessionCookieImpl.java:571)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.SessionCookieImpl.useApplicationModule(SessionCookieImpl.java:504)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.SessionCookieImpl.useApplicationModule(SessionCookieImpl.java:499)
     at oracle.adf.model.bc4j.DCJboDataControl.initializeApplicationModule(DCJboDataControl.java:517)
     at oracle.adf.model.bc4j.DCJboDataControl.getApplicationModule(DCJboDataControl.java:867)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.binding.TesterBinding.getConnectionInfo(TesterBinding.java:222)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame.initializeDataControl(MainFrame.java:945)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame.loadConfiguration(MainFrame.java:646)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame.processArgs(MainFrame.java:612)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame.main(MainFrame.java:446)
[1099] A dead application module instance was detected
[1100] The application module instance was removed from the pool
[1101] ApplicationPoolImpl.resourceStateChanged wasn't release related. No notify invoked.
[1102] Resetting AM=AppModule
[1103] An exception occured during checkout.
[1104] oracle.jbo.DMLException: JBO-26061: Error while opening JDBC connection.
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.createConnection(ConnectionPool.java:207)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.instantiateResource(ConnectionPool.java:166)
     at oracle.jbo.pool.ResourcePool.createResource(ResourcePool.java:580)
     at oracle.jbo.pool.ResourcePool.useResource(ResourcePool.java:313)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.getConnectionInternal(ConnectionPool.java:102)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.getConnection(ConnectionPool.java:66)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPoolManagerImpl.getConnection(ConnectionPoolManagerImpl.java:52)
     at oracle.jbo.server.URLConnectionHelper.getConnection(URLConnectionHelper.java:172)
     at oracle.jbo.server.URLConnectionHelper.getConnection(URLConnectionHelper.java:45)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPoolDataSource.getConnection(ConnectionPoolDataSource.java:72)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl.establishNewConnection(DBTransactionImpl.java:964)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl.initTransaction(DBTransactionImpl.java:1147)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl.initTxn(DBTransactionImpl.java:6838)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl2.connectToDataSource(DBTransactionImpl2.java:298)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl2.connectToDataSource(DBTransactionImpl2.java:329)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.DefaultConnectionStrategy.connect(DefaultConnectionStrategy.java:203)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ApplicationPoolMessageHandler.doPoolConnect(ApplicationPoolMessageHandler.java:600)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ApplicationPoolMessageHandler.doPoolMessage(ApplicationPoolMessageHandler.java:417)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ApplicationModuleImpl.doPoolMessage(ApplicationModuleImpl.java:9021)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.ApplicationPoolImpl.sendPoolMessage(ApplicationPoolImpl.java:4606)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.ApplicationPoolImpl.prepareApplicationModule(ApplicationPoolImpl.java:2536)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.ApplicationPoolImpl.doCheckout(ApplicationPoolImpl.java:2346)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.ApplicationPoolImpl.useApplicationModule(ApplicationPoolImpl.java:3245)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.SessionCookieImpl.useApplicationModule(SessionCookieImpl.java:571)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.SessionCookieImpl.useApplicationModule(SessionCookieImpl.java:504)
     at oracle.jbo.common.ampool.SessionCookieImpl.useApplicationModule(SessionCookieImpl.java:499)
     at oracle.adf.model.bc4j.DCJboDataControl.initializeApplicationModule(DCJboDataControl.java:517)
     at oracle.adf.model.bc4j.DCJboDataControl.getApplicationModule(DCJboDataControl.java:867)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.binding.TesterBinding.getConnectionInfo(TesterBinding.java:222)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame.initializeDataControl(MainFrame.java:945)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame.loadConfiguration(MainFrame.java:646)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame.processArgs(MainFrame.java:612)
     at oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame.main(MainFrame.java:446)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:as400://naming=system;libraries=QTEMP XAN4CDXA XAN4CDEM;translate binary=true;prompt=false
     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:602)
     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
     at oracle.jbo.server.URLConnectionHelper.getConnection(URLConnectionHelper.java:187)
     at oracle.jbo.server.URLConnectionHelper.getConnectionFromDriver(URLConnectionHelper.java:50)
     at oracle.jbo.server.ConnectionPool.createConnection(ConnectionPool.java:195)
     ... 32 more
[1105] JUErrorHandlerDlg.reportException(oracle.jbo.jbotester.ErrorHandler$ExceptionWrapper)
[1106] UIMessageBundle (language base) being initialized
Jun 12, 2012 4:38:26 PM oracle.jbo.jbotester.MainFrame exit
INFO: BC4J Tester exit code(-3)
Process exited with exit code -3.

When you use DB2 SQL flavor, the ADF BC use the oracle.jbo.server.DB2SQLBuilderImpl class as an SQLBuilder. This class determines the JDBC driver class name as follows:
1) If the JBO configuration parameter jbo.sql92.JdbcDriverClass in not empty, then the JDBC driver class name is taken from there;
2) If the jbo.sql92JdbcDriverClass parameter is empty, then:
<ul><li>If the JDBC URL starts with "jdbc:db2://", then com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver
<li>If the JDBC URL starts with "jdbc:oracle:db2", then com.oracle.ias.jdbc.db2.DB2Driver
<li>If the JDBC URL starts with "jdbc:datadirect:db2", then com.ddtek.jdbc.db2.DB2Driver
<li>Otherwise, COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver</ul>
(Have a look at the source of the method DB2SQLBuilderImpl.getJDBCDriverClassName(String url) for more details).
It is seen from the log in your first post that the parameter jbo.sql92.JdbcDriverClass is empty. As far as your JDBC URL starts with neither of the prefixes specified above (e.g. your URL starts with "jdbc:as400://"), then you should specify the necessary JDBC driver class in the JBO configuration parameter jbo.sql92.JdbcDriverClass. (You can specify it in the AM configuration parameters or in adf-config.xml).
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IMovieHD, "No disc burning drive found" and "The movie could not be sent.."

First post in these subject forums. I am posting the same problem in iDVD and iMovieHD which were from iLife'05, but I won't post there.
I loaded iLife'05 and also managed to get iDVD5 loaded although the packaging indicated that I needed to have a 733mhz G4 or faster processor and I have a Prismo Powerbook, 500 mhz and it was successful or maybe not.
Then I opened iDVD, I got this Error message..."The application iDVD could not be opened because the required hardware could not be found"...which makes sense as I have an external Lacie (CD-R,-RW, DVD-R,-RAM,-RW,R,+RW,R DL) burner that I bought about a year ago that my wife also uses on her G4 tower.......... and I did not have it connected. So I connected it and when I opened iDVD again and it still reads: "The application iDVD could not be opened because the required hardware could not be found." Shut down and reboot, no difference.
This probably does not have any bearing on the issue but in the System Profiler for "Disk Burning" there is a parameter "Burn Support" which is "Yes (Unsupported)", should this be "Yes (supported)"?
Question #1: Does iDVD5 only work with an Apple "superdrive" or does it work with other third party "DVD burners" ?
So I used iMovieHD from iLife'05 to create a project of an old family vacation (from an old 8mm Sony Handycam) and wanted to create a DVD, for archive reasons and to view on TV with a DVD player, but I could not do anything because of different errors now in iMovieHD.
File > Share...(a window opens and I choose iDVD and then click the "share" button) and this error comes up:
The movie could not be sent to iDVD, because of an unknown error.
"Please make sure that iDVD is properly installed, that your project disk has write permission, and that you have enough disk space. (Error 0)"
Next I tried: File > Burn Project to Disc......and this error comes up.
No Disc Burning Drive Found
"If you have an apple-supported disc burner, please check your connections and try again."
The project file is 5.89GB and I have 57.97GB free on the hard drive so I don't think that space on the hard drive is an issue.
Question #2: Is the issue of not being able to create a DVD from iMovieHD related to the iDVD issue although the error messages in iMovieHD and iDVD are different?
Question #3: How are Video DVD's from the Hollywood Studios able to make DVD's longer than 2 hours?
Thanks all for your help in advance. John

One more addition to this post, I opened DVD Player and got this error "There was an initialization error. A valid DVD drive could not be found (-70012)
Maybe this will help give someone a clue.

No suitable driver found?

Hey,
I've been searching this forum for a problem like mine (and I've found a few that are "like" mine, but none that are exactly the same or that will solve my problem).
First, any information that might be relevant (I really have no idea how much of this is relevant, I am brand new to this):
I'm using Eclipse and Apache Tomcat 6.0.14.
I'm trying to set up a JSP page that shows a query from an Access database. I'm working from an example, and I've followed the example to the letter, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
I have set up a "System DSN" ODBC and linked it to the proper .mdb file (I don't know that I'm using the proper terminology, but what I'm talking about is going to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC) > System DSN tab under Windows XP).
This is what my context.xml (in my WebContent\META-INF directory) looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
<Resource name="jdbc-odbc/ExampleDB" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"
url="jdbc:odbc:exampleDSN"
removeAbandoned="true"
removeAbandonedTimeout = "20"
maxActive="8"    />
</Context> "exampleDSN" is the name of the DSN I set up, and as I understand it, the value of the "name" attribute can be whatever I want, as long as it's referenced correctly in my JSP file.
Here is the content of my JSP file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" prefix="sql" %>
<sql:setDataSource dataSource="jdbc-odbc/ExampleDB"/>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<sql:query var="qry_LoanID">
SELECT LoanID FROM Loan
</sql:query>
</body>
</html>I understand that this won't actually display anything as I have it now, but I'm just trying to get this tiny JSP file to work correctly. That said, here is the error information I am given:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /cust_login.jsp at line 17
14: <title>Insert title here</title>
15: </head>
16: <body>
17:      <sql:query var="qry_LoanID">
18:          SELECT LoanID FROM Loan
19:     </sql:query>
20:
Stacktrace:
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:524)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:417)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
root cause
javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Unable to get connection, DataSource invalid: "java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc-odbc/ExampleDB"
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:850)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:779)
org.apache.jsp.cust_005flogin_jsp._jspService(cust_005flogin_jsp.java:91)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:393)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
root cause
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Unable to get connection, DataSource invalid: "java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc-odbc/ExampleDB"
org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.common.sql.QueryTagSupport.getConnection(QueryTagSupport.java:276)
org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.common.sql.QueryTagSupport.doStartTag(QueryTagSupport.java:159)
org.apache.jsp.cust_005flogin_jsp._jspx_meth_sql_005fquery_005f0(cust_005flogin_jsp.java:129)
org.apache.jsp.cust_005flogin_jsp._jspService(cust_005flogin_jsp.java:78)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:393)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.14 logs.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.14I hope this is enough information to get some help with my problem. I can't think of any other information I need to include, and I may have included too much already.
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

You probably don't have the Resource defined in your web.xml. Try adding that.
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Using Time Machine for an external startup drive

I've never used Time Machine; I just kept on using my older backup startup drive software when starting with Leopard three years ago.
My husband is getting a new iMac with an external drive for backup because I convinced him that Time Machine is so easy to use. Yes, I have a lot of faith that Apple knows what it is doing.
However, I don't know how Time Machine works for making an external drive bootable. If it's not super easy for that purpose, I'm thinking that it might be easier to partition his external in setting things up for him, and putting SuperDuper! on one of the partitions.
What do you think? Would Time Machine all by itself be super easy if he needed to startup from the external drive? Do you have to do anything other than to hold down the option key during startup to boot from an external drive backed up by Time Machine?
He's getting an iMac with a 1T drive and an external Iomega 2TB eGo Desktop Hard Drive.
I'm assuming that his new iMac will be coming with Snow Leopard, but it hasn't arrived yet and I don't know for sure about that. But I think if it doesn't come with Snow Leopard, I'd upgrade it for him before installing anything else.
Thanks for any help!
Mary

Thanks so much to you for taking the trouble to help me learn something about Time Machine. I think I've learned enough now to get it set up for my husband without doing anything particularly stupid.
Dave, there's no chance my husband would swing for a second external drive. I had to talk him into having one at all. He's not into managing a computer and doesn't want to think about stuff like backups. Once in awhile I'm in synch with that kind of orientation too, but then I recall the times I've been overjoyed to have good backups for myself... and my backup software is extremely reliable and easy to use.
Pondidni and Thomas, thanks so much for all the links. I've spent enough time reading them that I think I've made up my mind to go with a SuperDuper! partition for the expected way to boot from the external drive. It's also a great reassurance that it would be possible to use a Time Machine backup partition for restoration via an install CD if SuperDuper! should fail, though. SuperDuper! did fail for me once, but fortunately I had another partition with a SuperDuper! backup.
If the single backup drive fails, of course, that would be a nasty inconvenience. On the other hand, at this point I doubt that the actual losses in that unlikely event would impact my husband so horribly as it might for many who have work or school-related necessities stored on their computer. This is mainly a fun computer that he has at home, and if there ever are particularly important documents that he can't afford to lose, extra backups of those files could go onto a CD, DVD, or keychain drive. The chances of needing that are pretty slim.
I know that eventually the backup drive will fail if it's used over a long enough period of time, but he seems ready to follow my advice to only even connect and turn on the external drive once a week and leave it connected only during the time it's actually actively making backups. (Unless some very important work is going on, in which case he knows to keep it connected during that period of time.) An external drive will likely last a good while longer than average under that kind of very limited use.
Thomas, I do also believe in having extra backup external drives and hope to get one for my own computer in the near future. I noticed in shopping for my husband how much less expensively you can get a large external drive now than just a few years back.
Thanks again so much to all for helping me to think through how I can help him get started with his own backups.
Best wishes,
Mary

I've just bought a new iMac with 2 TB hard drive. Can I partition the startup drive?

I've just bought a new iMac with 2 TB hard drive. Can I partition the startup drive?

Glenfern wrote:
The reason I'm considering partitioning is - I'm going to transfer about 50 GB of family photos & music to the iMac. Over time the photos & music library is going to grow. My idea was to point the iphoto & itunes library to the new partition so that the application programs (that will will reside in partition 1), will not get congested with photos & music over time & degrade performance. Also, I dabble a little bit with the music editing program LOGIC & Sound Track Pro, which creates lots of little music files in the process.
In your case I would strongly recommend against partitioning, as dwb mentions a drive loaded with data on an
O SX system doesn't equate to performance loss. However partitioning does. If you were going to tell me you were partitioning to load different OS's on the computer then you would have a good reason to think about partitioning. My suggestion is do not partition.
What I would also recommend is getting some high quality high speed external HD's to store your photo and music libraries on. This helps keept the 2GB drive available while maintaining performance. I have 3 external HD's attached to my iMac, two are backup drives (1 Time Machine & 1 Bootable Clone) the third drive is for storing my my music, photo & movie libraries on. If you go this route the 3 drives I'd recommend are:
http://g-technology.com/products/g-drive.cfm
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10330
Personally I use the Lacie's however OWC or G-Tech would also be welcome on my desk.
Again if you want to take this path Apple has instructions for how to move the libraries to EHDs, if you want those links let me know.

No Bootable Drive Found, I HAVE UNIQUE SITUATION

Hello everyone, I would really appreciate some help!
I have a MacBook Pro and I've been trying to download Window 7 on it. Basically, I finally got a bootable flashdrive with Windows 7 on it. I have two actually. One made by Bootcamp, (Someone on youtube showed that altering info.plist on Bootcamp makes Bootcamp format ISO on USB) and one made by a Microsoft program from a different computer WITH windows 7 on it. Now, after formatting however, and after the disk partitions itself, the computer restarts and it says No Bootable Drive Found, Insert Bootable Drive and press any key, or something like that. I RESTARTED WHILE PRESSING ALT-OPTION and the only two things coming up are the Mac OS X , and the recovery. Now, the person with the video has the same model computer as mine and it worked for him, SO PLEASE Don't comment by saying it's impossible. Does someone know the problem? I'm sure the USB is bootable.

iTheoGamer wrote:
I have the exact same problem!When i alt click there is only Recovery disk and Mac Os x.The system cant detect the usb or ?Please help us.
How do you know you have the "exact same problem"? The original poster did not tell us his model and year Macbook Pro, neither did you. So you may or may not have the same problem. If your Macbook Pro came with an internal optical drive, you must use that to install Windows. Until you know for sure that you have the "exact same problem", start your own thread and provide more details.

Install windows 7 to s110, no CD/DVD driver found

I just bought Lenovo Ideapad S110 netbook. It already has MeeGoo OS installed but I want to install Windows 7 32 bit. So I made a bootable usb using Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool and tried to install Windows 7 using my usb. However I have an error "No CD/DVD driver found" I have tried all three usb slots but there still is that problem. All three slots are USB 2.0. Can anyone please help me with it?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hello and welcom,
That error message can also mean that there is a problem with your original Win 7 ISO or the way the USB flash drive was prepared or the copy to USB. Or perhaps a defective or incompatible USB flash drive. If it is a downloaded ISO, try the download again.
The way I usually make bootable Win 7 installer is this: use DISKPART to prep the drive - list, select, clean, partition, format NTFS, set active. Use 7zip to copy the contents of a downloaded ISO to the flash drive. If you're using a DVD, just copy the contents. In either case use an SP1 DVD.
Maybe you've already tried this.
Z.
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"no drive found" installing w 8.1 on SSD on Flex 2 15

Dears, I've been going crazy for 1 week, trying and trying everything to make a clean installation of Windows 8.1 64bit on an SSD I bought for my Flex 2 15. I've read thousands of pages of forums, changed 3 different SSDs, but nothing was successfull!(Crucial MX100, Crucial BX100, ADATA SP920SS) every time, during the W8.1 Setup Wizard, it displays "No hard drive found" when I have to choose in which drive to install the OS. My Lenovo Flex 2 15 came with Windows 8.1 pre-installed on a WD hard disk. Please help me.

solved this issue just......changing the SSD I bought a Samsung 840 EVO and it works correctly. Tried Crucial M550 (listed as compatible on Crucial website), Crucial MX1100, ADATA, but nothing with Samsung no issues.

How do I install a new startup drive

My startup drive on my Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.5 is full and I need to replace it with a 2T drive. How do I go about changing over the data and rebooting with the new drive?

Put the new drive into one of the empty bays.
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your new hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Quit DU and boot from the Recovery HD:
Clone Lion/Mountain Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu then press the Continue
         button.
     2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
     3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
     4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it
         to the Destination entry field.
     5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
         the Source entry field.
     6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new disk drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

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