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Chapter 2: Using DiskWarrior
Rebuilding Your Startup Disk
Rebuilding Your Startup Disk
Rebuilding Your Startup Disk Using a CD Drive and a Rewriteable
Disk
Your startup disk is the disk containing the current System Folder. Since the directory on the disk
containing the current System Folder cannot be rebuilt, you need to start up from another disk
to rebuild this disk directory. If you do not have another hard disk with a System Folder, you can
start up from your Mac OS system CD by following these steps. (For instructions on how to use
the DiskWarrior CD, refer to Rebuilding Your Startup Disk Using the DiskWarrior CD on page
41 in this chapter)
containing the current System Folder cannot be rebuilt, you need to start up from another disk
to rebuild this disk directory. If you do not have another hard disk with a System Folder, you can
start up from your Mac OS system CD by following these steps. (For instructions on how to use
the DiskWarrior CD, refer to Rebuilding Your Startup Disk Using the DiskWarrior CD on page
41 in this chapter)
1) Turn on your Mac OS computer.
2) Insert a Mac OS system CD in your internal CD drive.
You must use a Mac OS 7.1 through Mac OS 9.x CD in a drive from which you can start
your Mac OS computer to rebuild Mac OS Standard (HFS) disk directories. To rebuild
Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disk directories, the Mac OS system CD you are using
must be Mac OS 8.1 through Mac OS 9.x.
your Mac OS computer to rebuild Mac OS Standard (HFS) disk directories. To rebuild
Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disk directories, the Mac OS system CD you are using
must be Mac OS 8.1 through Mac OS 9.x.
3) Choose Restart from the Special menu to restart your Mac OS computer.
On most Mac OS computers, you need to hold down the “c” key to start from a CD.
Consult the documentation that came with your computer to determine what you need
to do to start from the Mac OS system CD. If you cannot start from your normal startup
disk and you see a blinking question mark on your screen when you turn on your
computer, skip this step.
Consult the documentation that came with your computer to determine what you need
to do to start from the Mac OS system CD. If you cannot start from your normal startup
disk and you see a blinking question mark on your screen when you turn on your
computer, skip this step.
4) When the computer has completed starting up from the Mac OS system CD,
insert a rewriteable disk with the DiskWarrior folder in the rewriteable disk
drive.
This can be a backup of the disk you received from Alsoft, or the disk on which you put
your copy of DiskWarrior as described in If You Received DiskWarrior Electronically
on page 21 in this chapter.
drive.
This can be a backup of the disk you received from Alsoft, or the disk on which you put
your copy of DiskWarrior as described in If You Received DiskWarrior Electronically
on page 21 in this chapter.
Follow the remaining steps in the preceding section of this chapter to rebuild your
startup disk directory.
startup disk directory.