[G4] HD's & Finder window shut down

[Umar Stone]

I tried startup with the SATA drive and it works fine, The problem  
seems to just occur when started from the original HD
On 28/05/2008, at 9:42 PM, ewood at izoom.net wrote:

>> G'day, I'm worried about my G4, suddenly unresponsive by not letting
>> me access my HD's located on screen (I have a SATA as well as an
>> external) on the finder window or any folders/apps. when I click on
>> them it just responds with a typical 'blink' like a finder reset. I
>> can open them from the Home or Application shortcut, but lots of
>> files are not responding, especially downloads (they just fail to
>> load). My G4 runs on X.4.9, I've tried Disk Warrior/ Safe Boot/
>> Reinstall but that disk is a 10.3.5 (would a latter one help). It all
>> occurred after X11 was not being recognized by X11 required programs
>> (Gimp etc.) so I 'apple deleted' it and reinstalled it from the
>> optional extras on the disk, then the nightmare began, can you give
>> me any advice, any would be appreciated
>> yours sincerely Umar.
>> umartisan at mac.com
>
> This behaviour is the same for both drives, you say? My first  
> thought is
> to boot single-user (hold command + s at startup) and run fsck -y  
> until
> there are no filesystem errors to report. Not sure about checking the
> external drive that way - best to fsck the boot drive and then use  
> disk
> utility on that after reboot. If the behaviour continues.. Well,  
> could be
> hardware or could be a bad system, but just what's wrong with it I  
> sure
> don't know.
>
> Eric W.
>
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