This is a bit off topic, but with all the knowledge among this list's
members I figure I can get a quick answer.
About a month ago the startup drive on my B&W G3 crashed (30 GB Maxtor
ATA drive that I bought new and installed about a year and a half ago).
I ran DiskWarrior on it. The drive had ~1200+ overlapped files on it
and some serious directory damage. DiskWarrior fixed the directory and
moved the damaged files to a temp folder.
The machine still wouldn't boot. I did an archive and install of 10.3,
and the machine booted. I used it for 3 or 4 days, but kept finding
things that were broken (screen savers wouldn't run, Stuffit Expander
complained about missing components etc). I assume critical files for
them were among the damaged files that DiskWarrior moved.
I had a backup on a firewire drive from about 3 weeks prior to the
crash, so I erased the drive and cloned the backup back to the drive,
but it wouldn't boot from it. I did an archive and install, but
afterwords, when I booted it, the login window came up w/an unknown
user. I did an archive and install again, but without retaining
existing users and this gave me a usable system.
I've been slowly setting the machine up as I had it before the crash,
and have moved very little from the previous system to the new one, as
well as using the machine for a bit of surfing and emailing, but not
much else. Then, yesterday, the machine began behaving really
sluggishly. I shut it down and then booted it up. It started up off the
original drive on the machine where I had installed a copy of OS X as a
backup system. I ran Disk First Aid on the Maxtor startup drive, and
it's damaged again. I'll have to grab the DiskWarrior disk from work to
see if that can fix it.
So, that long story leads up to my question. Would this indicate the
hard drive in question is about to go south completely? Should I
attempt to get it running off this disk again or should I write it off
and invest in a new hard drive, (or better yet, a new machine)?
Thanks in advance for any input,
RJay
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