[G4] Something bad happened

[Jay Snoke]

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On Aug 15, 2005, at 5:47 PM, parker wrote:

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> now Please take me off this stupid list please thank you
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com>
> Sent: Aug 5, 2005 8:27 PM
> To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: Re: [G4] Something bad happened
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> On 08/05/05, Gregory Cortelyou <chefgreg at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Early this morning I was using my G4 as usual, checking mail, reading
>> newspapers online, etc. and it was fine. I left home for a few hours
>> with the computer on which is not unusual and when I came back
>> something was different. I tried to open a document and nothing
>> happened, I mean nothing. The mouse cursor would move but would not
>> do anything. The hard drive was not spinning. Did a hard restart and
>> nothing, flashing question mark. Booted up with Tiger DVD and it did
>> not see my hard drive. Shut down properly from the DVD and tried to
>> reboot to the HD and it did work, it did spin up, and I could use
>> things for a minute so I rebooted to the DVD and ran disk utility to
>> repair. It said it could not repair the drive's damage. Said I have
>> "invalid sibling link". I have the OS 9 version of Disk Warrior but
>> it could not make the repair. Said the disk is too severely damaged.
>> Should I purchase the latest version and see if that will do it? I
>> hate to say it but my most recent backups do not have many important
>> pictures, etc. I will do what I can to get it back. I was trying to
>> do a big backup yesterday but for some reason after 30 minutes it did
>> not complete. My backup DVD was blank. Any suggestions appreciated.
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> Start with <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25770>.
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