[G4] Failing HD (was: Me, too)

[Roger Harris]

John is right about the hard drive. You will want to get a new drive 
right away. Set it up and move as much stuff as you can to save to the 
new drive. I would not run it until I was ready to save what needs to be 
saved to the new drive. is described is what sound to be the very late 
stages of drive failure and you could lose the drive compleatly at any time.

Setting up a second drive as the boot drive will help to get items from 
the old drive.

roger

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John Baltutis wrote:
> On 07/26/04, Nicolas Kinnan <nasw at pcmagic.net> wrote:
> 
>>Lots of old digests have come my way.  It's aggravating, as I cannot
>>delete them...  See, when I try to delete e-mail these days, my hard
>>drive makes a scraping sound and then, minutes later, Mail crashes,
>>with the messages still there...
>>
>>...Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Sounds like a failing HD. Run the Apple Hardware Test that came with your
> machine and see what it tells you.
>