[Kool_Aid_Man]

I had a kernal panic on my G5 and I've exhausted every way of repairing the drive. I hooked up the Powerbook to my G5 and put it into Firewire mode and everything is there. The thing is, my Powerbook only has 18 GB left and my external hard drive only has 18 GB left while my broken G5 has about 60 GB left and about 60 GB used. I could get one 18 GB chunk of my broken G5 and put it on the Powerbook and then transfer it over to the external hard drive and then delete it off my Power book and get another 18 GB chunk off my G5 until it's all over to the external but a) That will take forever and b) theres not enough room on the external hard drive. Is there a way I could make a partition on my G5 in firewire mode from my laptop and then bring all the files over to that 60 GB partition, install Panther and then bring my files to the newly installed partition? I have no idea what I'm doing here.

[Kool_Aid_Man]

Also, is there a way to directly put the files on the panicked G5 directly to the external hard drive?
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Edit: Also, if I zipped all the files together would it result in some things being corrupted? In the past big Zips haven't zipped well and thing come out deformed. Is there a risk if I do this?

[Tsilou B.]

So you have tried to repair the G5 hard drive by using the Disk Utility from your PowerBook while the G5 was in target disk mode and it could not repair the drive?

If the Disk Utility is able to repair your drive but you still cannot boot from it, you can just reinstall Mac OS X using "Archive and Install". No need to copy all the files over to the powerbook.

If Disk Utility cannot repair the G5 hard drive, then you should copy all important files to your external drive or the PowerBook hard drive. Don't zip them - the zip file would be created on the damaged disk and this could cause more damage.

By the way, if you connect the external drive to your G5 and then put the G5 into Firewire target disk mode and connect it to your Powerbook using another Firewire port on your G5, the PowerBook will see both the internal drive of the G5 and the external drive connected to the G5.

[Kool_Aid_Man]

Nm I got it to work. I got my 60 GB down to 30 GB and put it on my Powerbook's harddrive, reinstalled and put everything back.