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wuntrikpony · Nov 19, 2003, 06:57 PM

I am running a Dual 1.42 G4 with two internal drives, my system drive and a media drive. I have all my music and video on the media drive, which is a 250gig Western Digital Caviar drive. I was working in Cubase SX earlier and the program was freezing everytime I was saving. I then tried to play back video and it was having problems opening the very short clips.

I restarted and found that my media drive didn't mount. I shut down, waited a few minutes and then started back up. The startup took a lot longer than usual and it did pauses on "Checking Local Disks", but the media drive did mount properly.

I verified the disk in Disk Utility and it said it was fine, so I continued working in Cubase. It then crashed again and my computer froze. I did a hard shut down and restarted, my computer wouldn't start.

I shut down for 20 minutes and now I have successfully started my machine. Currently my hard drive does not mount. The disk is reported in System Profiler and Disk Utility.

I have tons of precious information on my media drive, and I have a couple of new projects that don't have backups. What should I do? Do you think my hard drive is on the verge of completely dying?

MdntCommercial · Nov 19, 2003, 11:21 PM

I know of some problems with panther and external drives, did you get the update?

wuntrikpony · Nov 19, 2003, 11:29 PM

Originally posted by MdntCommercial:
I know of some problems with panther and external drives, did you get the update?

Ya, but this is an internal disk.

MdntCommercial · Nov 19, 2003, 11:31 PM

honestly, that is kind of scary, however not really because you can call sos-apple

macgyvr64 · Nov 20, 2003, 12:05 AM

Try DiskWarrior 3...it's saved me and others a bunch of times. Worth the money. If you want to give it a shot, email me.

dagaz · Nov 20, 2003, 12:29 AM

OK, there's bunch of things you can do before you start freaking out.
1) zap the PRAM by holding down Apple-Option-P-R after the startup chime and at least until you hear the startup chime the second time.
2) hold down Apple-S after startup chime. You'll see a whole heap of Unix gobbledook scroll down your screen. When you get a >prompt type in "fsck -y" (fsck stands for file system consistency check). If it reports "File system was modified" after this repeat the process until it says "appears OK" then type "reboot" (or "sudo shutdown -r now" if you are in 10.1 or earlier)
3) Boot off your Install CD, select Disk Utility from the Installer menu and then Repair Permissions.

Gankdawg · Nov 20, 2003, 09:01 AM

Originally posted by dagaz:

3) Boot off your Install CD, select Disk Utility from the Installer menu and then Repair Permissions.

Not to get too far off track, but why is the CD needed? Repair permissions seems to work fine while booted off of the hard drive. In fact, I'm doing it right now (and do so after every update).