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Sep 10, 2015 3:43 AM in response to digitaltoastby Allan Jones,★HelpfulThe specs appear fine. This part bothers me:
Toshiba shipped a bunch of 40GB 2.5" drives in the early 2000's that simply did not hold up. A friend had two older PowerBooks updated with Toshiba 40GB drives and both drives failed in less than three years. I replaced them with WD Scorpios and they are still working fine--10 years later!
See if the vendor will let you specify a brand.
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Sep 10, 2015 3:48 AM in response to Allan Jonesby digitaltoast,Thank you. Well, the drive arrived, I fitted it, formatted, partitioned and tested.
And now the situation is EXACTLY the same as with the old drive. Laptop boots (took a few goes to install), but then after a while, I get the beachball.
And although the top menu responds, nothing else does. I can select restart, but it won't. Only a hard crashdown sorts it.
The disk can be checked for both errors and permissions, and passes just fine, but it does take a LONG time. Same as with the old disk.
For example, it started downloading updates, got to 6%, then I got the beachball.
I'm beginning to think it might be network adaptor related, even though I have tried both LAN and Wifi.
My original post is here, but the disk error may be misleading now.
PowerBook G4 "The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)"
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Sep 10, 2015 4:34 AM in response to digitaltoastby digitaltoast,Well, it's been almost an hour now since I tried changing the network adaptor from DHCP to fixed IP, fixed DNS servers, no IPV6.
I don't know which it was that fixed it, but it's been running perfectly all that time. Used to not last even a minute.
How very frustrating!
