Part 2 - Can I do a "repair" install of the OS?

Can I? If so, how do I go about doing that?
The computer is not booting to the Hard Drive but is giving me a perpetual gear
Would I do this by booting from the Tiger DVD and selecting an option?
D.

"Would I do this by booting from the Tiger DVD and selecting an option?"
Judging from your other post, if you've already used Disk Warrior, and the computer is stil not booting, your best option is to erase the drive and reintsall the OS.

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Ok, so here's a two part question:
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So, as I cannot seem to find a way of repair installing with 7/Vista (and even if I did find a way, I hope there is some easier thing I can do), what can I do to stop this problem from occurring when the storage controller is changed? Can I pre-install the driver? How do I set it to use that driver to boot? (again, assuming something like this happens)
Sorry for the long winded question(s), I hope you guys can help me out! :)
jt

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Thank you in advance.
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Here are some of my concerns more specifically:
Ordinarily, I try to backup my iMac Hard Drive with QRecall to an external hard drive regularly, but I have never actually had to restore any of the content, thankfully. For the purposes of what I am trying to do, would it be more sensible to just do a drag and drop copy of the iMac Hard Drive volume to an external and then back to the iMac after repairing the iMac hard drive disk and updating the OS or is it smarter to restore from the QRecall archive?
Assuming the hard drive disk repair solves the problem, when should I update the OS, before or after restoring my iMac hard drive? Or is the OS update something that I will do during the iMac hard drive disk repair?
Maybe this is a stupid question, but when I restore or copy (not sure of proper terminology) my current iMac Hard Drive Volume back to my computer, is the old OS not a part of that? Is it possible that I'd update the OS, then restore or copy the hard drive volume back to the computer, and then it would revert back to the older OS Leopard?
Again, thank you very much.

I am under the impression that when I repair the disk, it will wipe my hard drive clean;
That is an incorrect assumption. A disk repair will not erase the hard drive. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1782
It may, however, be the case that Disk Utility cannot repair the drive catalog. If that occurs, you can try a third-party disk repair tool - Alsoft's Disk Warrior is the one most often recommended - and if that fails then you will have to erase or, if erasing fails, replace the hard drive.
My goal is to update the OS to Snow Leopard so that CS4 is compatible with my computer.
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would it be more sensible to just do a drag and drop copy of the iMac Hard Drive volume to an external
You cannot do a drag-and-drop backup of your hard drive. There are many hidden files and linkages that would not be copied.
when I restore or copy (not sure of proper terminology) my current iMac Hard Drive Volume back to my computer, is the old OS not a part of that?
Your backup has whatever OS version was on your computer when you made the backup. So if you restore that backup (assuming you backed up the entire drive and restore that same entire drive), you'll be going back to that version of Mac OS X.
I'm complete unclear on when you've made a backup and what got backed up, so without more information I can't say the steps I would take in your situation. Post back with details on your backup and we'll go from there.
Regards.

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