OS X crashing...OS 9 style...

Re: OS X crashing...OS 9 style...

From what I've heard, Drive 10.1 is a joke. It can't repair half of what it's sibling products can. I personally like Norton, but there are those who don't. Your situation isn't a very good one. (Suffice to say, I'm glad I'm not in your shoes.) Hope you get it fixed soon.

 

Sometimes norton can cause more problems then it can fix though.
I don't know much about errors like this one, but it really puzzles
me that a clean install won't fix them. It seems like a clean install
would wipe out everything, including the problems...

 

have you tried just a normal fsck -y at boot?

 

DO NOT USE NORTON!!! Your computer will never be the same after. TRUST me on this one.

i have no reason to lead you astray

 

At this point, I'd say try four things.

1. Your HD may have bad sectors; get a new one.
2. Your vid card may be improperly seated; reseat it.
3. Your RAM may be badly seated; reseat it.
4. Barring those, take it to a repair shop. This think is sick.
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   Oh yeah, one other thing: run a search for coregraphics, and make sure that the system isn't getting its graphics data from a drive without the rest of the system. Beyond that, I suspect option #1. That would also explain the original failure of Beachball.

 

Backup and reformat

I have had similar problems.
First check your hardware like the previous poster said. If it doesn't help then I suggest a re-format.

I assume when you reinstalled, you didn't do a reformat right?

Backup your data.
COMPLETELY reformat your boot partition with apple's 10.2 Disk Utility right before installing (format it a couple of times just to be sure), and reinstall OS X with only the languages/drivers you would need.
Install all the updates for OSX. Reboot.
Next restore your files into your Documents, Movies, Library, etc folders.
Reboot. Everything should be fine now.

P.S When creating your user account again, if you decide to copy your library folder from before, it would be best to use the same username and password you started with.

 

I have used Norton Disk Doctor (booting from CD) many, many times, it has found and fixed lots of probems and it has NEVER had a negative effect.

 

Norton also creates problems, and can corrupt files and folders on your harddrive. If you use FileSaver, Norton usually fixes the drive correctly. But when a harddrive crashes, I NEVER trust Norton. I've had one too many bad experiences with Norton to do that.

For the problem at hand, I would recomend fsck -y, and then Diskwarrior. If this does not work, try a re-install (zero all data). If it's still not working, try another harddrive...

Good luck!

 

two words, diskwarrior. great program. doesnt know how it deals with osx though. diskwarrior 3 should be coming out soon.

iJon

 

If you happened to format it as UFS instead of HFS+, you could stick it in a Wintel box and run ScanDisk, otherwise wait for Drive 10.

 

I'm surprised so many people are having bad experienced with Norton.

BOT: This may seem like a dumb question, but if the Hard Drive you are using, shadow, is from Seagate, consider getting a whole new Hard Drive. cr2sh experienced major problems with his Seagate Hard Drive, as well as MacAztec and Ms. V.