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Question: Q: Startup disk full, computer won't turn on! Recently, every time I turn on my MacBook Air, after the startup chime, a window pops up saying the startup disk is full.
Copied from this link - Please Read Before Making Your Purchase: If You Are Purchasing DiskWarrior Repairing your usual startup disk requires that you start up from another disk. In order to use the download copy of DiskWarrior, you will need to start up from another disk with Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.x installed.
You will then need to run a copy of DiskWarrior from a disk that is not the disk you are repairing. (The DiskWarrior download does not include the Apple System files necessary to create a startup CD.) If you cannot use the download version of the software (i.e. You have only one internal hard drive and this is the drive you wish to repair), please order directly from our sales department or from one of our resellers to be sent the software on CD. If you order via the secure server, you will be sent a CD, but delivery of your CD will take approximately three to four weeks, depending on your location.
You must boot your computer from the external drive in order to run DW from that drive so unless this drive is a Firewire drive with OS X installed or a bootable clone backup of your internal drive along with DW installed, no go. Repairing your usual startup disk requires that you start up from another disk. In order to use the download copy of DiskWarrior, you will need to start up from another disk with Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.x installed. You will then need to run a copy of DiskWarrior from a disk that is not the disk you are repairing. Is your external drive a Firewire drive?
If not, do you have access to another Mac that supports Firewire Target Disk mode? Copied from this link - Please Read Before Making Your Purchase: If You Are Purchasing DiskWarrior Repairing your usual startup disk requires that you start up from another disk. In order to use the download copy of DiskWarrior, you will need to start up from another disk with Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.x installed.
You will then need to run a copy of DiskWarrior from a disk that is not the disk you are repairing. (The DiskWarrior download does not include the Apple System files necessary to create a startup CD.) If you cannot use the download version of the software (i.e. You have only one internal hard drive and this is the drive you wish to repair), please order directly from our sales department or from one of our resellers to be sent the software on CD. If you order via the secure server, you will be sent a CD, but delivery of your CD will take approximately three to four weeks, depending on your location. You must boot your computer from the external drive in order to run DW from that drive so unless this drive is a Firewire drive with OS X installed or a bootable clone backup of your internal drive along with DW installed, no go.
Repairing your usual startup disk requires that you start up from another disk. In order to use the download copy of DiskWarrior, you will need to start up from another disk with Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.x installed. You will then need to run a copy of DiskWarrior from a disk that is not the disk you are repairing. Is your external drive a Firewire drive? If not, do you have access to another Mac that supports Firewire Target Disk mode? You wrote: 'P.S. Dr Smoke - the links don't seem to work, are they right?'
They're correct and I tested them yesterday after writing my post. However, it appears that Alsoft's is down, which explains why the links don't work at present. I've e-mailed my contacts at Alsoft to alert them to this problem.
The upshot of those articles is to 1. Install DW on a second Mac — call it the 'good Mac.' Connect the problem Mac to the good Mac and start it up in. Launch DW on the good Mac and use it to repair the drive of the problem Mac.
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. external drives can be used as startup disks on both PowerPC-based Macs and Intel-based Macs. external drives can be used as startup disks on Intel-based Macs, but not on PPC-based Macs. Some early USB 3 external drive enclosures did not always work as bootable sources. Be sure and check that you can boot from your external device. An easy way to make sure is to create a, and then try booting from your external.
external storage works fine as a startup drive for any Mac that includes a Thunderbolt port.