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

[Roger Harris]

Both Disk Warrior(DW) and Norton would help..DW is the best for disk 
repair. You would need to run it first and then run Norton to fix broken 
files. If you are running OSX you need the newest versions of both. If 
you can only get one I would make it DW 3.

What mac is this happening on? If it is a Sawtooth to the Quicksilver 
you may need a firmware to fix a problem with those Macs and the IBM 
drives they shipped with. If it is one of these get the firmware from apple.

You can contact me off list <roger at rogerdharris.com>

roger

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