OK, let's say, just hypothetically, that I ran the CCC and copied the good stuff onto the external drive, then, late last night, ran the install disk to upgrade to Tiger, with the "erase disk" setting in place to format the poor little Mac HD. And, just as a mental exercise, let's say it appeared to work, and during the install process, it asked if I wanted to import my old settings from another computer, and I said, fine, fine, use the external drive, and it did, and everything seemed fine.
(For the sake of argument, let's say that when it told me to disconnect the firewire after the transfer was done, I did, but then it told me that I should have ejected the disk and may have caused some damage by not doing that.)
And then, in the wee hours of the morning, the desktop turned up, I could change the wallpaper, I could check the Airport settings... but none of the icons seemed to work. They wouldn't click.
And then I decided, oh, if I restarted now, maybe that'd work everything out, so I did.
And now, it'll only boot off the install disk--and won't recognize the hard drive at all. It's not on the basic "install onto" menu, and if I go to "Disk Utilities" it's (purely hypothetically) all in red type and tells me to replace that disc with one that works because it's having a S.M.A.R.T. failure.
I can navigate around the external backup hd, but I can't boot off it (maybe I configured it wrong while doing the CCC, or maybe it's because I didn't eject it right that once). And the system won't recognize its own hard drive to format it or copy the backup files onto it.
So, right now, let's just say that I'm running the battery down and seeing if a cold boot helps make the hard drive appear and be installable to.
If this doesn't do the trick, then what, hypothetically, should I do? |
