Failing Drive? End of Road?
I have a powermac G4 867. Internally, I have a main hard drive (3-partitions, all with bootable sytem folders - 2 with 9.2.2, 1-the largest - with 0SX 10.3.9) as well as 3 OTHER internal drives used mostly for video media storage.
On attempting to boot, I get the question mark over the mac folder icon.
I have tried multiple restarts. I have tried zapping the pram.
On booting up using the OSX install disk, and selecting the "choose startup disk" option, no sytem folders are found.
Trying to reinstall OSX, the process simply freezes after the first screen.
Tyring to run the disk utility, it keeps giving me the error message, "one of the background operations needed to run disk utility failed to load properly, quit disk utility and restart." (and all operations freeze there).
I am however able to access the contents of the main hard drive via a firewire connection to my G3 powerbook. (starting up the G4 and holding down "T")
I have backed up its contents to an external firewire drive so as not to loose important files. However, the other G4 internal drives do not appear via the firewire connection to the powerbook...
While connected as a firewire drive, I ran disk utility on my G4 hard drive from my powerbook, and according to it, the drive is completely verified and needs no repair (tried "repair disk" anyway - says it's fine). However, everything is still the same after this.
After all this, and reading other people's similar posts, I am assuming that my hard drive is failing. Are there any more steps I can try, or is it time to go to the repair shop?
On attempting to boot, I get the question mark over the mac folder icon.
I have tried multiple restarts. I have tried zapping the pram.
On booting up using the OSX install disk, and selecting the "choose startup disk" option, no sytem folders are found.
Trying to reinstall OSX, the process simply freezes after the first screen.
Tyring to run the disk utility, it keeps giving me the error message, "one of the background operations needed to run disk utility failed to load properly, quit disk utility and restart." (and all operations freeze there).
I am however able to access the contents of the main hard drive via a firewire connection to my G3 powerbook. (starting up the G4 and holding down "T")
I have backed up its contents to an external firewire drive so as not to loose important files. However, the other G4 internal drives do not appear via the firewire connection to the powerbook...
While connected as a firewire drive, I ran disk utility on my G4 hard drive from my powerbook, and according to it, the drive is completely verified and needs no repair (tried "repair disk" anyway - says it's fine). However, everything is still the same after this.
After all this, and reading other people's similar posts, I am assuming that my hard drive is failing. Are there any more steps I can try, or is it time to go to the repair shop?
G4 powermac 867, Mac OS X (10.3.9)
