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Booting Drive 10 on Mac OS X-only (2003) systems
We previously noted that on Macs introduced in 2003 - which no longer have the ability to boot in to Mac OS 9 - some disk utilities reliant on an OS 9-booting scheme will be largely non-functional with the new systems.
It now appears that the CD included with Drive 10, a Mac OS X-native disk repair utility, also fails to boot for some readers on 2003 Macs. Stan Goldberg writes:
"I just received a my new Drive 10 disk from Micromat and to my disappointment it will not boot on my Powerbook 12". Now there are no disk tools that work on the new improved very hot PowerBooks."
A potential workaround that we applied successfully in-house is to use the shareware utility BootCD - which creates a disk image that can be used to burn a Mac OS X boot CD that has a working Finder and Dock on it - to burn a 2003 Mac-bootable copy of the Drive 10 CD.
Booting from the CD will take quite a while depending on your system configuration, and you will be prompted to enter the Drive 10 serial number.
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