[G4] Something bad happened

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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

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.

Start with <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25770>.
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