On 15.01.2006, at 17:08, RJay Hansen wrote:
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)?
Hello Rjay,
witch revision of b&w do you have? Some of the revision 1 have a bad
ATA controller chip what can corrupt data on fast hard drives (wich
your maxtor is). You can see this by looking at the chip. 646U2-402
is the good one of the revision 2 mother board.
If you have the good one your drive is about to pass by.
see
http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&q=yosemite+ata+data
+corruption&btnG=Search
for further details.
hth
Sven
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