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

[Nicolas Kinnan]

Thanks for the tip, it's what I figured.  The problem is that many 
things are written to what must be the bad spots on the disk, so when I 
do try to copy them to other media (CD-R or my video drive), it causes 
the same thing -- a crash and then failure of the operation.  I know 
it's my own damn fault for filling my HD up to 99% of its capacity, but 
I only recently learned that one should not do that.  Would Norton or 
Diskwarrior help me repair the damaged files so I could do a transfer?  
This only started happening after I updated to 9.2.2 a couple of years 
ago and used to only be a problem while booting into OS9 or Classic... 
But now it's spreading.

N.





On Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at 09:11 PM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:

> Message-ID: <4106C280.1040202 at rogerdharris.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:00:48 -0500
> From: Roger Harris <roger at rogerdharris.com>
> Subject: Re: [G4] Failing HD (was: Me, too)
>
> 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