B and W G3 Hard disk problem

Thank you both for your comments and advice. You both offered equally good points. You both do know more about this than me, although thanks to you both I am in catch up!

It may be any of the surgested things. I tried the X clearing and Narda!

So next I will assume dead HD,although I rather hope it has retrievable data on it, although most of it is backed up!

Alway the bit that is not one wants!

My moves have been to confirm the hard drive replacement with OWC. They say it can go to 125 Gb drive on this machine configuration. So a new disk is in mind.

The ram is a suspect. Any idea on how to check ram logistically, given the machine is in hospital!

Otherwise I thought I would send and ask OWC to check the ram, replace all or any not working. Try that and see, with the old HD. If nothing. Put a new HD. If that it is not working it's back to the drawing board for me!

Looks like no current fix missed so it repair now!

Have a eight core on its way, so it's turning into a project were I can take my time, yet I do need it running!

The G3's are very robust range. My old bondi still plays games well and still looks the business, a computer of its time!

I just love apples!

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After reading these, I assumed he had already thrown in the towel and had attempted to reload the OS more than once. I did recommend identifying/removing the offending piece of hardware prior to re-installing OS X, as ignoring a malfunctioning component would likely corrupt the new installation.

Yes Jeff, I saw the baby having gone out with the bath water in a flashback just after I read this, ha, or :-(

There is no reachable system file. The disk reads 0 file, just registers by subtraction, the software 76. Something of an 80 Gb disk!

The fact that I worked on it in an interim period between it not, may surgest somthing, just not sure what, yet who knows?

Be nice if there were system warnings like my car, check engine, or oil low. Ram dodgy inspect!

Ta! :-)