[Ham-Mac] How to Screw up your HD

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

The unix-ish approach was not an option.  I could not get to the terminal to
start a session.  All I had was an endless spinning disc with no way to
escape other then the restart button on the face of the G4.

I need to put a sticker on the display saying Hold down Option key to boot
from backup drive.... good tip from Rich Prather.

Dick AA5VU


On 3/15/06 12:43 PM, "Bob Nielsen" <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:

> Perhaps a unix-ish approach would be:
> 
> 1.  Start a terminal session.
> 2.  Do "ps ax" in the terminal and find the PID of the copying process.
> 3.  Do "sudo kill -9 <PID>"
> 4.  Do "rm Desktop/*.jpg" (assuming the pictures are .jpg files).  Or
> if nothing else in on the Desktop (other than the drives), "rm
> Desktop/*".
> 
> On Mar 15, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Rick Prather wrote:
> 
>> I'm sure your blood pressure was going up pretty well during all
>> this but I can think if a couple of different "morals"
>> 
>> Number one, don't hit the "panic" button.  You are lucky you
>> recovered as easily as you did.
>> 
>> I don't know how many pictures are in your library but you would
>> have been better off to let it rip and finish what it was doing and
>> then use the <Edit - Undo> command in Finder to "undo" the copy.
>> 
>> BTW, the command to boot from your "Optional" drive is to boot
>> holding down the "Option" key.
>> 
>> At least you didn't do what my Mom probably would have done - pull
>> the power cord!
>> 
>> Rick
>> K6LE
>> 
>> On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:
>> 
>>> I did something really dumb this morning and finally recovered.  I
>>> was in
>>> iPhoto selecting five pictures to drag copy to a compact flash
>>> card.  I used
>>> the Select All command and started the copy.   Something did not
>>> look right
>>> then I realized I was in my Library rather than an Album folder
>>> and iPhoto
>>> was copying my whole library of photos to the desktop because I
>>> messed up
>>> dragging them to CF card.  The G4 was going crazy so I hit the
>>> panic button
>>> the front to force a restart.  It restarted but OSX 10.4.5 could
>>> not mount
>>> the desktop.  I had and endless spinning disc.
>>> 
>>> I could not remember the keyboard combination to force the machine
>>> to boot
>>> from another drive so I messed around with until I could get the
>>> DVD drive
>>> open to be able to insert and boot from the OSX 10.4 startup
>>> disc.  Finally
>>> got it to boot and used the Startup option to boot from my Backup
>>> HD.  It
>>> worked find the recovery was to trash the Desktop file from the
>>> Primary
>>> drive and replace it with a copy from the Backup drive.  I did not
>>> want to
>>> do full backup from the backup because I did not want to lose some
>>> new stuff
>>> that was not backed up.  I then had to use the Disc Utility to
>>> mount the
>>> Primary drive so it could be selected as the startup drive. While
>>> I had the
>>> Disc Utility open I repaired the primary drive.  It all worked and
>>> I am now
>>> back on the Primary HD. Humpty-Dumpty is back together again.
>>> 
>>> The moral to this shaggy-dog story is NEVER use the iPhoto Select
>>> All if you
>>> are in the Library.  Everything is now working great thanks to
>>> Carbon Copy
>>> Cloner and having a good backup drive.
>>> 
>>> I was trying to do too many things at the same time really messed up.
>>> 
>>> TNX for reading
>>> 
>>> 73, Dick AA5VU
>>> 
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