Rebuilding a hard disk

Greetings,
The hard disk in my MacBook was apparently not happy. I wanted to create a bootcamp partition but it said it couldn't move all the files and that I needed to reformat and rebuild my disk.
<sigh>
Several efforts with Disk Utility, both from the hard disk and from my Leopard installation disk did not resolve the problem.
However, I foolishly thought this shouldn't be too bad as we have three network hard disks on our home network (along with our Macs and a couple of token PCs). So I copied the entire hard disk contents to one of the networked drives. Trying to be clever, I created a disk image on one of the network drives and put the everything in there. Why I thought that was a good idea, I have no clue.
So, in goes the Leopard installation disk, scrub goes the hard disk, and now I've got a fresh installation of Leopard and an otherwise empty hard disk. (And yes, I then setup a bootcamp partition with no problem.)
I used software update to bring the newly installed Leopard up to date, mounted the disk image with all the previous contents of the hard disk, fired up Migration Assistant, picked the middle option of bringing stuff back from another disk, smugly thought this is going to be easy and....
Nothing.
Migration Assistant would not recognize the mounted disk image.
Okay, round 2. I tried plugging that ethernet hard drive directly into the ethernet port of the MacBook. I didn't think that would work, but to my surprise, the drive did mount and then so did the disk image. Back to Migration Assistant and... nope, would not recognize the presence of the attached hard drive nor the mounted image.
Round 3. Maybe the disk image wasn't such a good idea. I copied the whole thing into a vanilla plain folder on one of the other networked drives. I made sure that other drive was fully connected and mounted to the MacBook in the Finder and back to Migration Assistant. Still couldn't see any other (ethernet/LAN) drives connected to the MacBook.
Round 4? I could move everything to one of our other Macs, but the thought of dumping a second fully functional System Folder into a perfectly happy Mac seems like a good way to create a perfectly unhappy Mac. But if that did work, then I could do a firewire connection between the two Macs and hope that Migration Assistant lets me choose which system and applications to import. I have a bad feeling that it would not be that specific.
I don't have an external firewire drive and I'm certainly not going to buy one for this task. Three ether drives on our LAN is quite enough for our needs.
So, does anyone have a suggestion on how to restore all my old System settings, Libraries, Apps, etc to my MacBook and given my lack of an external firewire hard drive?
Thx!
-brian

Migration Assistant only recognizes volumes capable of booting a Mac. A disk image does not qualify because a Mac can't boot from a disk image -- an application to mount the image file as a disk is required, which means an OS to support the application that does this must already be running.
Depending on how you made the image file & the drives you have available, you might be able to restore the image to a partition & end up with a viable (bootable) startup volume that Migration Assistant would recognize, but otherwise you probably would be better off in the long run by reinstalling your third party apps & manually entering your system & user settings as required.
There are ways of copying just what you need from a mounted disk image into the current startup drive & integrating them into the OS properly, but they are complex enough that subtle or not so subtle problems can arise if everything isn't done just right.

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3. Be sure you have deleted old OS 10.8 Install file and load fresh one.
4. Install OS 10.8 and you should be OK.
5. Good luck.
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Disk Utility is too light weight. Apple needs to beef it up. This is my biggest complaint. Apple utility should be able to fix disks. We should not have to spend $100 to fix a disk, but there you are.
Once fixed however, back to usual beautiful, flawless apple experience.

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Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #3, followed by #4 and then #1 as needed.
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PB G3 Pismo-Stalls, Hard Disk Disappears

[NOTE - This message originally posted in Older Hardware discussion group. One response appears at end of original message.]
PB G3 firewire (Pismo)
OS 10.4.2
Fastmac G4 550 processor
576 mb RAM
Western Digital 60 MB HD (replacing Toshiba 40 mb HD that I thought was problem)
DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM
The computer starts and works fine for a while until, without any discernible trigger (except maybe physically moving the PB), the PB stalls (twirling rainbow colored disk). Sometimes it first stalls in one application (so I can switch to other apps or the finder using the Command-Tab keys), but eventually it stalls in all apps. Force Quit option (keyboard or menu-activated) does not function. The only option is to shut down and restart. Sometimes it restarts, other times just a flashing question mark in the floppy disk icon.
If I happen to be in Word when the stall occurs (or is about to occur), I first get a dialague box telling me Word can't read from or write to the open file, saying there must be a bad network or floppy disk connection. I can usually quit Word when that dialogue appears, but restarting Word does nothing to fix the problem. Instead, I have to restart the PB.
With the flashing "?," I can hear the HD trying to start spinning again and again, but nothing happens. As noted below, starting with Diskwarrior has at least once resulted in Diskwarrior not being able to find the HD.
ATTEMPTED SOLUTIONS
Run the latest version of Diskwarrior. Does not solve the problem. Sometimes, Diskwarrior cannot even find the hard disk.
Replace the HD - did that switching the Toshiba for the Western Digital drive. The Toshiba works fine in a Firewire HD case. The problem can't be HD.
Reinstall OS X and applications - done multiple times, both archive and clean installs.
Make sure RAM is properly seated.
Reset PRAM.
WHAT'S WRONG?
I think the problem is hardware related (other than HD).
Any suggestions for what to look at and in what order? For example: G4 processor bad; RAM bad (but symptoms don't seem consistent with that); power/charge card bad; something with the heat sink; something with the cable that attaches to the HD.
Is there a way of checking these short of replacing them one by one?
Appreciate any help I can get.
Ken
On 12:04pm Sep 15, 2005 CDT, jpl wrote:
Subject: RE: PB G3 Pismo-Stalls, Hard Disk Disappears
Ken,
Welcome to the discussions!
A very good description of the problem! You obviously have covered a lot of territory troubleshooting this issue and it certainly appears to be a hardware-related.
I think you have fairly well isolated the problem as I see it:
- stall (spinning beach ball) that eventually occurs in all apps;
- a restart that produces the flashing '?';
- DiskWarrior's occasional failure to find the HD.
I would suggest you have a bad HD ribbon cable or a bad HD IDE bridge on the logic board (or some other issue on the logic board) that develops with heat.
Since you have a FireWire HD with a known-good HD, why don't you use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable clone of your internal HD on the FW HD, then boot to the FW HD and run from it and see if the same issue develops.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
On 12:41pm Sep 15, 2005 CDT, Ken H wrote:
Subject: RE: PB G3 Pismo-Stalls, Hard Disk Disappears
Thanks for the quick response. I will try what you suggested.
I also was thinking that this may be a heat-related problem, and wonder if maybe I did not put enough - or too much - heat sink compound between the heat exchanger and the processor board. Could it be that simple?
One item I omitted from my original post: before I replaced the Toshiba HD, I noted, when I turned the sleeping PB on its end to carry in my laptop bag), the PB would almost always be stalled when I woke it from sleep, requiring a restart (and too often a directory rebuild using Diskwarrior or an archive

Rebuilt the directory using Diskwarrior, but on the last step received the following error message:
A disk malfunction occurred while writing the replacement directory to the disk. Rebuild this disk again."
Also, this rebuild showed a large number of repairs. When I ran Diskwarrior this morning, it showed there would be no changes to the directory. I've barely used the PB since this morning's rebuild.

Rebuilding a hard disk

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