Well I knew better to be so smug. Anyway here's the scoop. My Mac has been extremely
solid untill.... I added my new Pioneer DVR 105 v1.30. I'm not blaming the install of the drive yet.. After the install I ran permissions and everything checked out. Drive was seen by
Profler, IDVD, ect. Burned two backup DVD's
in Toast Ti nor problem. Happy camper. I then
tried to copy an old DVD movie and the shade
death death decended. No problem, just restart. I immediately rebooted into a second drive and ran Disk Warrior and permisions repair. Which brings me to another issue. Is there an preferred sequence to repair. Disk Warrior, fsck-y, permissions? There were no anomalies found. Rebooted to my main drive
and all seemed fine again. I did not attempt to recopy the DVD. This morning I booted up as normal. ( Mac was shut down overnight because of thunderstorms). I put a DVD in the
superdrive ( superdrive set as master, combo as slave, superdrive on top) and it mounted normally. I just left it there and proceeded to get my mail and do some web stuff when the shade of death decended. Reprise the boot to the second drive and check/repair. I go to preference a choose my main disk and restart.
My mac will not boot into my main disk. The drive is mounted normally and is accessable. But the X is missing off the System Folder, so
some corruption obviously. Now the scary part. My Mac crashes in my second drive ( text splayed across the screen) In the first line I was able to read 'corrupted stack'. Moving on
I restarted with the power button and here I am at the crossroads. I'd like to do a system restore on my main drive. My second drive has two partitions one which is bootable and which I am working on now. All 10.2.6. Can try a system restore without disrupting my main drive significantly or am I doomed to total reformat? Ouch! I feel I'm on edge here on the second drive. I'm going to install the
repairs disk. I'd like to use the superdrive but I don't know. The combo is available.
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