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Has my G4 Sawtooth OSX HD crashed?
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Seattle, WA, US
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Strange things have been happening with my G4 tower. I have 2 drives; one with OSX 10.3.x (whatever latest is) the other has OS9. I normally boot from the OSX drive, but lately weird stuff like CD not being able to eject and the computer not able to shutdown without holding in the power button. Most recently it has been freezing right after boot up. I get the white screen with grey Apple logo, but no timer going around. I would either have to push the restart button several times to get around this. But now the only thing I can do is boot up from the OS9 drive and the other drive doesnt appear on the desktop at all. Execpt for once and then I tried running Disk First Aid to repair the OSX volume. It stated there were some errors with the B tree directory. Hit the repair button and with about 6 second left to go in the whole process the computer just locked up. Now I cant get the drive to show up again at all.
When a drive crashes can it be a slowly deteriorating process or does it just happen all of a sudden and that's the end of it?
Any sugesstions?
Thank you.
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Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2000
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Boot from the OSX Install CD. When it hits the Installer, go to the File menu and select Disk Utility. Do the repair on the HD from there. Also, in Disk Utility, note the SMART status on the drive. If it's failing or has problems, then the repair is only temporary - back up all data from the drive and replace it.
If the SMART status is ok, then the repair should suffice.
TechTool Pro can find and repair unmounted volumes. DiskWarrior is the best disk repair utility, but it usually requires the drive to be mounted first.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Seattle, WA, US
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Reader50,
Thanks, I tried that but it did not work. There was some sort of "Sibling Error" in the middle of trying to repair the disk then Disk Utility locked up. After I rebooted the OSX drive no longer appears as a volume in Disk Util and now I cant even get the other OS9 drive to boot up.
I put a Lite-On CDRW in this machine some time ago and it really hasn't been the same since. Often a CD will not be allowed to eject and dissapears from the desktop. I just wondor if it could have anything to do with whats happening?
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Boston, MA
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It is odd to think that the CD-RW and the HD can be connected re this issue, but if it a thing to check out. Remove all extra thingies, cards, drives, etc so you can narrow down the problem being a conflict of hardware of a hardware failure. Let us know.
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