[mgl]

iBook G4 800. I'm preparing my old iBook to hand me down to a relative. I connected it to my new iBook and started it in firewire target disk mode. Then I used Disk Utility on my new iBook running 10.4 and used that to wipe the hard drive on the old iBook. It said it would take hours so I left it and when I returned my new iBook was asleep and the old one was still bouncing the firewire symbol.

I tried to wake my new one but it would not wake even after 5 minutes of patience. I forced power off and rebooted it fine. I powered down the old one, stuck in the MacOS installer, and restarted. It didn't work and kept wanting to restart. I tried it a few times and shut it down. Then I tried booting off the Tech Tool Deluxe CD that came with my AppleCare, thinking I should try formatting the drive or something first. It started booting but then gave me a corrupted screen with noise across the middle band. Just a mess. I can't get this machine to work now. How could the hard drive be fragged just from writing zeroes to it with Disk Utility? Any ideas on what I could try?

Thanks

[mgl]

Problem solved.

I tried Diskwarrior with no luck. I finally hooked it up again via Firewire target disk mode to my new iBook and I was surprised to see the hard drive appear in the finder. I ran Disk Utility on the new machine and tried to repair the old machine's drive. It said it didn't need to be repaired. Hmm. Rebooted the old machine with the MacOS 10.3 installer disk and now it works fine. I've booted it a couple of dozen times with various repair tools and so on since this started and everything choked. Hooking it up via firewire again seems to have solved the problem. Doesn't make sense, but problem solved.

[tooki]

You left the disk in an unstable condition: half-formatted.

Just boot the old iBook from an OS disc and run Disk Utility that way and start over.


And what do you mean by "fragged"? Fragmented? Kinda hard to do on a blank disk!

tooki

[mduell]

Originally Posted by tooki

And what do you mean by "fragged"? Fragmented? Kinda hard to do on a blank disk!

Fragged:

• Verb form of Frag, which was derived from the Vientam War Era wounding caused by FRAGmentation weaponry (bullets, grenades, and mortar shells included), and is used to denote a kill of an enemy in FPS (First Person Shooter) games.
• The personal past tense of frag - to have been killed by someone in a computer game.
• Obliterated. Either physically or mentally.