Disk Utilities Question–How to Repair the Boot Drive

[Rich Rubasch]

Cmon guys. Get Disk Warrior. It is the best mac drive utiity I have ever used. You get an app that can repair drives and a bood disc that can reapir the boot drive. It does WAY more than the simple Disk Utility that Apple provides. I have fixed many a disc that Disk Utility couldn’t even recognize.

Please seriously consider Disk Warrior!

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Toruwatanabe]

Well, I’ve heard of that program but never used it. I think this sounds like the best advice.

[Toruwatanabe]

Oh, I just wanted to add that I actually went out and bought ANOTHER legit copy of Tiger (10.4.6) from the Apple store. My single expectation was that starting the G4 from the install disk and running Disk Utility would be as simple and easy as possible this way. HOwever, I’m not seeing any clear indication of how to run disk utility from the install disk. I don’t see any clear indication of how one unmounts the boot disk effectively; it seems that I’m inescapably routed into installing, and re-installing, and re-installing the OS without being given a chance to use the OSX disk to repair the boot. I freely admit that I’m not the sharpest tack when it comes to systems-related anything, so I ask: what am I missing? What is the process, step-by-step?

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it is an option from one of the menus at the top,