Originally Posted by jbleisure
A friend has just been given a iBook G3, 700GHz,
640 RAM I offered to run disk warrior on his hard drive ( From my PB) but there was no sign of the iBook after we connected the firewire cable.
Do I need to restart it or put it in target disk mode?
Or better to run the DW from the start up disk?
Tips appreciated.
You can not repair the disk that has Disk Warrior running, so using it from the startup disk ON the start up disk is a no go.
To enable target mode, connect the machine to be repaired by firewire cable to your Mac, the one with a (legal) copy of DW on it, and reboot the machine to be repaired - holding down the "t" key until the machine boots. You should see the firewire symbols floating around the screen if the target mode boot worked. I am not sure that all old machine do work in target mode, but they should if they have a firewire port, I think.
Then run DW, quit it, and after that drag the icon on your mac to the trash to unmount the disk, and push the powerkey on the target mode computer, which should shut it down. Now it is safe to unplug the cable.
Uh, you do have the instructions for DW don't you, I seem to remember that this explanation was there somewhere.
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