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Jane,<br>
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Here's another response.<br>
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The Apple Hardware Test disk can sometimes verify a problem
with a dying hard drive, especially if you let the disk test loop for
a while. AHT disks come with the system when first purchased
from Apple so your friend should have one. Most people file
them away and forget they exist. (:->
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Agreed, based on the symptoms a failing disk is the most likely
culprit. Fortunately it's also one of the cheapest problems to fix.
In fact the disk might still be under warranty from the disk
manufacturer (you can call the disk manufacturer with the
serial number).
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But easier still, just buy a new disk.
<br>
<br>
John
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<pre wrap="">I have a G-4 iMac (the one whose base is half a basketball) and am running
10.3.9. I have an external Firewire drive with a duplicate of the hard drive
connected to the iMac.
Yesterday my computer was acting erratcially and kind of slow. (I have lots of RAM.) SO I decided to run Disk Permissions. The Verify Disk permissions reached a certain point and would not go any further. So I tried the force quit (command/option/escape) ---- just got that %&$#@ spinning beachball! So I turned off the iMac with its switch. It was very slow to boot up ----- first the dock......then menu on left side.......then desktop..... then menu stuff on right side...... finally date and clock. Then I tried to just Repair Permissions. It got so far and stalled. Repeated this procedure about 3 times!
Tried Disk Warrior and it said there was an error and couldn't fix it.
Tried using the Panther install disk to Verify Disk and got this message: Error: the underlying task reported failure (-9972)
Can anyone tell me what might be wrong and and how to fix it?
jane
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<b>furtive</b> \FER-tiv\ adjective
*1 a : done by stealth : surreptitious b : expressive of stealth : sly
2 : obtained underhandedly : stolen
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When Teresa asked who had left the surprise on her desk, Patrick and I exchanged furtive glances across the room.
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