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OT: Can’t boot from CD
Hey All,
Asked this over in the OSX forum, but it seems pretty slow over there, thought someone here could offer up some wisdom.
Want to run Disc Utility on my system drive, can’t seem to get my Quad Core to boot from the Techtool Deluxe cd that came with my applecare plan, which is now expired. Every time I try, either by holding the c key, or by going to sys prefs and setting the techtool cd as the startup, it freezes on the gray apple screen after a restart or a cold boot.
Right before the freeze, I get a small line of weird colored pixels above the apple logo, and then a freeze, and eventually the fan goes crazy, most likely because the system is not loading. Using Tiger 10.4.11 and just trying to repair what routine maintenance revealed something the disc utility calls a minor problem on the HD, but in general the unit is running fine and passes all the techtool tests.
Any thoughts?
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3 Replies
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I’ll answer this even though you should have waited on the earlier post and not posted here with this. These are pro forums, and we really do like to stay on target. Just next time?
What’s your real problem why do you want to run utilities on your HD?
Jerry
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Hi Jerry,
Thanks, saw a warning come up on the disc utility, got a little panicked.
Anyway, what happened was that I ran the verify disc utility while doing some routine maintenance and it said my system drive “Volume Header Needs Minor repair” and “The volume sh HD needs to be repaired” which came up in bright red letters, sure is the first time I’d seen that message. Can’t repair it unless I boot from disc, which doesn’t seem to be happening.
Ideas?
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Boot from your OS installation disk. Disk Utiltiy is on it.
Jerry
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