Diskwarrior External Drive

I have a Firewire external hard drive. ...

The quickest way to solve the problem, IMHO is to just do a clean install. Back up your data to the external drive, reformat your eMac's hard drive and install OS X. Once installed, copy everything back to the internal drive. ...

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

pressed to find a USB flash drive with that kind of capacity and quality for less. ...

I am a big fan of TechTool Pro 4, but in this particular case I am not sure that it is the answer to your data recovery problem. If DiskWarrior completes and says that is has successfully repaired the drive but errors still persist, there may be problems that cannot be solved by any disk repair utility. ...

I have both DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro, newest versions, but if I could only have one of these, it would be DiskWarrior. ...

to repair an external drive with a real utility like diskwarrior once you're back up. if that's the case, simply unplug the external drive during your brief darkscreen time. then plug it back in once running and hope you can see it. ...

Sounds to me like your drive is corrupt, but it showing up as an external drive is x is just plain wierd. Do you have any extra ram in it? ...

I have no idea what "fsck" means, but use Diskwarrior. You will have to boot to OS 9 to use it, but it is by far the best drive fixer for the Mac. If you have an external FW case, it might make the process easier. ...

both of these programs do much better repairs, do a safer defragmentation and i believe they cost less than norton as well. my own reccomendation is the diskwarrior and plus optimizer combination if you only get one. it has a well earned application for fixing things other repair apps don't. ...