Installing Tiger External Disk effects local hd

Adnod · #1 February 25th, 2005, 04:39 PM

Has anyone had any problems installing Tiger on an external disk so that it effects local disk information?

I installed Tiger on external firewire drive no probs from my G4 PowerBook 17". Tiger boots fine, runs well. I occasionally run DiskWarrior to check disks. Ran fine on external disk but errors on local disk with message "This disk appears to have a newer version of the Mac OS disk format than this version of DiskWarrior." Latest version of DiskWarrior and OS X 10.3.8 on local disk.

Can anyone shine a light on this.

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**fryke** · #2 February 25th, 2005, 06:25 PM

Well, I guess Spotlight modifies the disk catalogue files etc., and that DiskWarrior's code sees the changes and gives this message. I'd either wait for an updated DiskWarrior (probably after Tiger's released) or just swipe the internal disk clean and reinstall 10.3.8 etc. Or maybe you can ignore that warning? Basically, the disk format should _not_ be different, even though DW thinks it is.

Adnod · #3 February 28th, 2005, 10:48 AM

Spotlight is a possibility. But I have used DiskWarrior from my local disk to check the external firewire drive, which has the Tiger system installed, with no problems at all.

I would think that if it works on the external then it should work on the local. Unless it is a Spotlight bug on older OS disks...

**fryke** · #4 February 28th, 2005, 03:33 PM

Well, then I don't actually see why DW would think it's a newer format... :/ ... You could ask _them_ of course?