Diskwarrior External Drive

Superduper! ... backed up my startup hard drive to an external firewire ... hard drive, which ... should be bootable. But I can't get the computer to start from the external hard drive. ...

I have created the eDrive using TechTool Pro on an external HD. ...

buy Diskwarrior from Alsoft. If Diskwarrior can't fix it, likely nothing will. ...

do you have access to another mac running OSX? if you do, or can get access, then you could link the two via FireWire, then start up your dead mac while holding T, to instigate Firewire Target disk mode. if not damaged, the mini's hard drive should appear on the desktop of the other mac as an external hard disk, at which point you could try disk utility on it, or at worst,...

the disk 1 was the disk utility that i tried reparing with, then it stopped recognizing the disk. It was Diskwarrior that could read the minor specs of teh drive but called it 'unknown'. ...

Last Sept my internal HD crapped out. I had been using OS9.2.2 for audio applications. I got a new Hitatchi Travelstar drive and had a mac store instal it. Since I wanted to have the option to boot in OS9 I had them instal that as well as the OSX. ...

If you have any external devices connected, try disconnecting and running without them. Try a different keyboard and mouse if you can. ...

but when the DiskWarrior CD is in the player, it refuses to "show up" as a bootable option... ...

a firewire to another computer and was not able to boot from the Pismo hard drive. I did repair the disk permissions with Disk Utility just using the Pismo as an external firewire hard drive, and then I used DiskWarrior and repaired the directories. The computer still won't start and I still get the Universal No Symbol. ...

The format of the drives is Extended Journalling. Last week, we put another external FireWire hard drive on the server to backup the files using RetroSpect. We did the backup Jan 9, 2006. ...