Re: Bad sectors on PB G4 - Need help

[Robert Howells]

OK !

So you have a Laptop G4 with hard drive problems .

That is not unusual for a Laptop and the most reliable answer is  
probably

a new hard drive .

See here : 


Some people enjoy Tech tools . other's find it troublesome .
Disk Warrior is a good alternative ,

if your laptop boots from OS9 I can vouch for SpeedTools



Bob





On 12/02/2008, at 7:29 AM, Paul Burke wrote:


Hi,

I have a Power Book PPC G4 running 10.4.11. The laptop stopped  
booting,

hanging on login window loading. I booted using tech tools cd and ran
all tests. The report stated bad sectors on the disk and it failed the
surface scan. Before repairing I backed up all the data to an external
drive using firewire mode. Then tried to boot into tech tools again  
and

it would not let me. I decided to rebuild the laptop with 10.4 using a
clean install and wiping the disk. After the clean install and
successfully booting into the OS I then booted into the tech tools cd
and ran all tests and repaired. I repeated this process and again got
bad sector errors and a failed surface scan test, although this I did
not get the option of repairing.

If this were a pc I would use a fantastic piece of s'ware called
spinrite. Now I know spinrite can read hfs but I don't want to have to
take the laptop apart in order to get the HDD out and into a pc (which
is the only way spinrite to work on Mac file system) - So question is
'Can some please let me know a good HDD repair s'ware product for the
Mac?' (Preferably freeware as I'm doing this as a favour for someone
else) - I have checked online with no joy...

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Paul

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Bad sectors on PB G4 - Need help

[Paul Burke]

Hi,

I have a Power Book PPC G4 running 10.4.11. The laptop stopped booting,
hanging on login window loading. I booted using tech tools cd and ran
all tests. The report stated bad sectors on the disk and it failed the
surface scan. Before repairing I backed up all the data to an external
drive using firewire mode. Then tried to boot into tech tools again and
it would not let me. I decided to rebuild the laptop with 10.4 using a
clean install and wiping the disk. After the clean install and
successfully booting into the OS I then booted into the tech tools cd
and ran all tests and repaired. I repeated this process and again got
bad sector errors and a failed surface scan test, although this I did
not get the option of repairing.

If this were a pc I would use a fantastic piece of s'ware called
spinrite. Now I know spinrite can read hfs but I don't want to have to
take the laptop apart in order to get the HDD out and into a pc (which
is the only way spinrite to work on Mac file system) - So question is
'Can some please let me know a good HDD repair s'ware product for the
Mac?' (Preferably freeware as I'm doing this as a favour for someone
else) - I have checked online with no joy...

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers 
Paul

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