Pretty Cool Feature of OS X
- From: "PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:23:19 -0600
Yesterday a co-worker of mine had a serious problem with his MacBook. It seems after applying the 10.4.9 update his system would no longer boot. All he would receive is the prohibited sign when starting up his MacBook. Trying to reset the NVRAM didn't help. According to the Apple documentation the next step was to re-install the OS. Apparently there's no way to manually copy missing/corrupted files onto the HD. This was not something he was looking forward to. So he set out to re-install OS X. He selected the Archive and Install option as he wanted to preserve his data (no backup). The implementation of this is pretty cool. The OS was re-installed and all of his applications and data were migrated to the new install. He had his MacBook up and running again without so much as having to do anything more than swap the OS disks (apparently there's two DVDs). Pretty cool. With Windows one would have to re-install all the applications too (though Windows does provide the means to repair the system).
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