Re: Hard Drive too badly damaged for Alsoft to repair.

In article <rowbotth-F6A2F8.15392913052006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rowbotth
<rowbotth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been having a few problems with the main hard drive in my G4 Mac
(OS 10.4.6)

I get a blinking power indicator on the monitor, which I've been told is
a bad thing and I should reboot when I see this. This seems to be
waning regarding frequency -- it was more often in the past couple of
months but appears to be returning. Also, I am finding myself unable to
open Windows Media Player until I shut down the Mac, wait a minute or
so, and then re-start it.

I popped in my Disk Warrior CD to see if maybe it could fix something.
When I try to rebuild the main Hard Drive, I get an error message
telling me that the hard drive is too badly damaged to rebuild. (All
that has really happened is that we had a couple of bad power outages
which crashed my mac. I took it back to the place that sold it to me,
and they made it work and didn't mention anything about any other
problems - but I didn't really ask, either. Since I have replaced the
UPS with a new one with functioning batteries...)

I'm going to send Alsoft Technical assistance an email about this
message, like the error message suggests. But I'm wondering whether his
might be something that someone else has seen and might be able to point
me towards a solution, perhaps?

Thanx,

H.

Before you send Alsoft an email, you might want to check their support
pages for DW.

Are you running v. 3.0.3 of Disk Warrior? A message that "the disk
cannot be repaired" is one of the known problems that can occur from
running an earler version of DW on a computer running Mac OS 10.4.x.
According to Alsoft, running an earlier version will not harm your
computer.

If you are running the latest version of DW, you might want to try: the
Mac OS Disk Utility, the Mac hardware test disk that came with your
computer, and a broader disk utility than DW - i.e., TechToolPro. Or,
you can just erase, reformat and reinstall and hope the disk is not
toast.

Cathy

--
"there's a dance or two in the old dame yet." - mehitabel

C.Stevenson, M.D.
cats1921@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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