[HM] Disk permissions won't fix the problem

[Duane Murphy]

If there is an error that disk warrior can't fix, then your drive is toast.

Backup as much as you can of what ever is important to you. 

First attempt would be too reformat the drive. When you reformat it tell
it to completely erase and write 0's everywhere. This will force the
drive to map out bad sectors. This will take a long time; several hours.
If it works, you're good to go. Reinstall and put back your files.

If it doesn't work, start shopping for a new drive.

 ...Duane

--- At Mon, 9 Oct 2006 03:49:43 +0000, janesprando at comcast.net wrote:

>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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 ...Duane