So the Saga of the Coffee + Laptop continued today.
Upon the Computer gaining its heartbeat back, I quickly realized that there were sections of my Hard Drive that had mysteriously disappeared!
So here are the bits of intelligence that I can share with the world.
Long ago, when I first bought my 15″ Powerbook, the Logic Unit failed, not once, but twice. That machine was taken back from Apple, thanks to my purchase of the 3 year Apple Care Protection plan. As this occured right during the transition from PowerPC to Intel based computers, I was offered a brand new MacBook Pro. This was the first release of the machines, in fact they were so new they weren’t even in the store yet.  I would have had to wait for 2 weeks, and as many of you freelance web developers know, that is just not possible.
So I opted for the 17″ PowerBook pimped out to the max.
The problem here, is that I was given an Apple Care Tech Tools Deluxe cd based on my first computer, and was not given a new cd when I received the 17″ machine. Why does this matter? Because when you try to boot your 17″ PowerBook with a 15″ Tech Tool cd, you get a Kernel Panics.
Use this link, to get a disk image (DVD/CD) of the new version of the software.
Back to the present.
Apple’s built in Disk Utility did not repair my corrupted hard drive.
Apple’s Tech Tool Deluxe Volume Repair tool did not fix my corrupted hard drive.
What did the trick?
DiskWarrior 4 from Alsoft.
At $99 this is not necessarily cheap, but it did the trick right away.
I recommend.