My 4-year old PowerBook G4 is running Leopard from an external drive, because last night when I tried to install it on the internal drive, it gave me the blue screen of death. No kidding. The installation went smoothly at first, when it was completed, it rebooted itself, then moments after the normal white screen with the animated moving circle, the blue screen appeared and stayed there. The cursor moves but nothing else. I waited a long time before I forced restart it, then again and again. Each time it hanged at the blue screen. I grew impatient, so I ran First Aid from the Leopard disc but to no avail. Then I did the unthinkable and ran DiskWarrior out of desperation, knowing full well that I shouldn't use a disk utility that hasn't been updated for a new operating system. Sure enough my worst nightmare was confirmed, as my hard disk became unreadable after that. Luckily, God was good to me and at least let me mount the drive as an external, but with a very firm warning that the disk is bad and that I should get whatever I need out of there and reformat the drive. Who am I to disagree with God? I immediately caught up with my backup, which I had let lapse for 5 months. How shameful. I promise I won't let that happen again with Time Machine. However, I still haven't reformat the drive. I'm hoping that DiskWarrior will get an update soon that will undo the voodoo and make my drive miraculously work again, then i can have my PowerBook back just the way it was. Meanwhile, I'll just let it run off the external.
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