As I said, I need help! I have a 1 Ghz Dual Processor Quick Silver with 1.5 GB ram, running OS 10.4.11
I had two harddrives installed. My main drive is 150 GB but shows up as being 120 gb. The other harddrive was about 80 GB. Anyway... I turned the computer on today and heard a persistant clicking noise.... I investigated a little, but was not too worried because the main boot drive was functioning normally. Later checked here on the list for possible reasons for the clicking noise and found it was likely harddrive failure... which is when I went looking for my second harddrive icon on the desktop... couldn't find it .... so I loaded in my OS X install disk and rebooted with it as the startup disk. The missing drive did not appear in the lineup. I then switched back to my boot drive and made backups of all my working files. However, I've lost access to whatever was on the second drive, and alas, do not have a recent backup. Is there any way to retrieve files from a "dead" drive? Okay.... so I'm now missing some stuff... mainly downloaded music, and purchased stock photos..... BUT that's when it goes from bad to worse! I turned off the computer, unplugged it, grounded myself and went in an discounted the malfunctioning harddrive. Tried to reboot, heard the start-up chime, after along wait, got the grey apple logo screen, and then after another long wait, my desktop photo and dock appeared on the screen, but my files did not load.... just the spinning beach ball...... I let it sit for .5 hour.... but nothing was happening so I shut down the computer again and restarted by holding down the "c" key, since the install disk was still in the DVD drive. I then checked the boot volume and it came up that a minor repair was needed... did that, and then verfied the permissions. That came up saying that everything was wrong. So I ran repair permissions. Then I rebooted using the main drive, and that's when it gets stuck (as detailed above) My files are still on the boot drive, but how can I get the harddrive to mount? I don't have an up-to-date version of Disk Warrior..... if I got the appropriate version and ran it, building a new volume directory for the disk, would that solve the prolem? Any other suggestions? I had a SCSI card in a slot that I wasn't using, so I pulled it out just in case it was interfering with the boot process in some way. Still get hung up at the desktop, with the spinning beachball. Like I said earlier... HELP! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
