Recovering of my Macbook Air

Hi All , after a long night and day strugle I managed to recover my MacBook Air. I decided to post this for anyone who encounter this problem in the future , hope this helps.
Situation: After trying to solve an Airport Problem , I decided to boot in safe mode. The laptop got stuck in grey screen ; after a while I force a shutdown pressing the power button ; when I powerup again ; it never came back. The grey apple screen appeared and after 10 seconds the computer turned off.
I booted in Single user mode ( cmd+S). Running the fsck command , showed a corrupted disk ( Invalid Key lenght ). An ls command showed my document files were there.
The Problem: How do I reinstall OS without loosing my data ( Remember , this is a macbook air ) . Running Disk utility from OSx Install Disk forced to erase the disk before continue. Well, I figured out a solution
Solution:
   You will need another Macbook
   Using an external USB drive ( in my case a 640 Gb Samsung Hard drive).
   Using Disk Utility I made 3 partitions on Samsung disk ( All partitions , GUID , and Mac OSx Plus , journaled)
    Partition 1 : 250 Gb named OS_HOST
    Partition 2 : the size is not relevant here ; named OS_ INST. Then you copy an Image of OS Install Disk 1 using the restore option to this partition. Insert OS Install disk 1 , drag into source , then drag into destination field the OS_INST partition already created.
    Partition 3 : the same with Partition 2 but with the OS Install Disk 2
Once ready , plug the hard disk in USB port of MACBook Air and power on. When you hear the chime ; pres option-alt key and keep it pressed until you see the option of booting with the USB partition ( Orange icon ). The installation utility will start up ; choose to install in OS_HOST external Disk Partition.
After installation is finished ; the macbook wiill reboot with full operating system in external disk, and the installation procces will help you to migrate all the files in internal hard drive. Otherwise , the internal hard drive will be accesible from FInder , from wich you can copy your files to OS_HOST in external disk
From there and with your files save and sound ; you can clean reinstall your OS in you Macbook Air internal disk.

Great post/tips Luis!
But I think I'll ask for it to be moved to the MacBook Air or Leopard 10.5 forums.

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