[Ti] Big Trouble with System-HELP!

[Nanther Thangarajah]

At 19:54 -0500 1/13/03, Seymour J. Wolfson wrote:
>It started on Saturday when I simply tried to open the Hard drive 
>and the only item listed was the System Folder.  When I tried to 
>close the folder, it would not close.  When I tried to restart the 
>computer it froze, and I had to force it to restart.  After much 
>fiddling, I managed to use DiskWarrior to rebuild the Desktop.  That 
>worked for a while then the same thing happened again.
>I thought it might be a virus, so I used my copy of Norton Antivirus 
>and it found nothing.  I then used Norton to fix any files and it 
>did its thing.
>The TiPB seemed OK until today, when again the same thing happened.
>Again I used DW to rebuild the desktop and its working again.
>  It seems like something fundamental is wrong. Any idea what is 
>going on and how to get it to run OK?  I am running OS 9.2.2 with 
>512 MB of RAM.  HELP!

First out, Diskwarrior fixes the directory and not necessarily the 
desktop file, although it can fix custom icons, apparently.

What did the fixit reports say? Anything of note?

My question is, how old is the computer? Also, have you moved a lot 
of data on and off that computer recently? I'm guessing the disk 
could be severely fragmented.

Since you've run both DW and NDD, I'd suggest running either 
PlusOptimizer or Speed Disk. I tend to like Norton Speed Disk, but be 
very careful. Only run this, if you have a recent version of Norton 
Systemworks.

However, before doing anything, make sure you have a recoverable 
backup of your files & system.

That's all I can infer based on the presented information.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Nanther