04-09-2009, 11:15 PM
In your position I would install a fresh OS on the internal at this point, after another reformat.
You do not need to be booted from the new OS install to run updates on it (I assume you have the 10.4.11 combo updater file hanging out somewhere).
Once you do you can run from the fresh OS and rule out the hard drive definitively as the problem (hopefully.)
Once you feel good about the hard drive, you can give Migration Assistant a shot-- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
One tip I do want to stress, from painful experience:
When you have an opportunity to name your new user, name it something other than your old/main/everyday user that currently lives on the internal. Otherwise you'll have to rename the old user to something different to pull it over, and you'll have worlds of woe from that.
If Migration Assistant doesn't cut it (sometimes it just sucks randomly) Rammie or Doc will help you drag the old stuff over manually (Doc is definitely the resident docent on that sort of thing.)
You do not need to be booted from the new OS install to run updates on it (I assume you have the 10.4.11 combo updater file hanging out somewhere).
Once you do you can run from the fresh OS and rule out the hard drive definitively as the problem (hopefully.)
Once you feel good about the hard drive, you can give Migration Assistant a shot-- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
One tip I do want to stress, from painful experience:
When you have an opportunity to name your new user, name it something other than your old/main/everyday user that currently lives on the internal. Otherwise you'll have to rename the old user to something different to pull it over, and you'll have worlds of woe from that.
If Migration Assistant doesn't cut it (sometimes it just sucks randomly) Rammie or Doc will help you drag the old stuff over manually (Doc is definitely the resident docent on that sort of thing.)