[G4] Hard Drive Failure

[sr ferenczy]

kind of grasping at straw, but shut down the entire system, unplug 
peripherals, unplug the power cord. let it sit for 1/2 hour then 
restart it holding down cmd-s  (is that correct??) to boot into single 
user mode. if a command line comes up, type "fsck -y" (without the 
quotes) and hit enter. repeat until it comes up "ok" two times in a 
row.  then type "reboot" again, without the quotes. '

oh, and remove all drives but the WD 120 from the machine.

sandor


On Dec 23, 2003, at 11:14 PM, russells at strodtbeck.org wrote:

> Looking for so help.. I have a G4/400/OS10.2.8/704 mb Ram. Last night 
> I put it to sleep and was not connected to the internet. All was 
> working fine. When I woke it up this AM the OS was down to a crawl and 
> locked up. I restarted with the rest button and after a long time it 
> was up but still so slow. I ran disk First Aide and it did some 
> repairs but did not impove. The HD is Western Digital 120 GB with 3 
> partitions. And one of them did not remount. I ran Norton System Works 
> with no help and the more I worked with it the less I could get any of 
> the Partitions to mount. I had a second  HD 40 GB  with OS 10.2.8 on 
> it, but had to reinstall OS 10.2.8 and is working fine. At one point I 
> was able to view  2 of the partitions form the 40 GB drive, but after 
> reinstalling the OS they are all unmounted. The 120 GB is only about 3 
> months old. I understand the OS X does house cleaning during the night 
>  when in the sleep mode..it appears it   got carried away... Any help, 
> suggestions would!
>  be greatly appreciated.. Also any suggestions for software to repair 
> the Drive.
>
> C. Russell