I posted this on the Digidesign site but didn't get any responses. I hoping someone here might be able to help me...
I had a Pro-Tools session open and walked away for about three hours. Nothing unusual except that my 20" display was set to sleep by mistake (One of Digi's requirements is to turn off energy saver). I moved the mouse to wake up the display and the digi session was still open of course. I hit save and then quite. I got that spinning color beach ball for several minutes. The session would not quite or force quite so I shutdown by pressing the on off button on the display. This morning the computer would not boot. All I got was a blank gray screen. No spinning bars, no nothing except that the fan sped up. So I disconnected the second internal audio drive (IBM Deskstar, same ribbon bus as startup drive) figuring it was suspect, and sure enough the computer started up. I tried the drive in another G4 and the same thing happens. Is it possible I got a corrupt something or other? Or is this what happens when a drive craps out? PT still works on my third internal drive (other ribbon bus) for what its worth. And yes I have some valuable things that were not yet backed up. Any thoughts or ways to boot up so I can trouble shoot this drive?
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