Re: Hard Drive Error During OSX Tiger Reinstall (Urgent)

<jakob77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was running OSX Tiger on my Powerbook G4 and was experiencing some
performance issues. I was told a reinstall of Tiger might help. Using
my disk that I got from Mac I tried a reinstall (I archived the
existing system when prompted), which failed for whatever reason part
way through the process.

I did not have time to attempt this again at that time and therefore
asked the system to shut down.

Instead of now allowing me to reinstall, it says I do not have osx
v.10.3 which is necessary to install Tiger. Also the computer will not
reboot and I do not know how to access the archived system.

Incorrect block count for file system.log
(It should be 33 instead of 63)
Keys out of order
Rebuilding Catalog B-tree.
The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired.

Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit

1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Repair attempted on 1 volume
1 volume could not be repaired

I really do not want to have to reformat the hard drive, as that sounds
like deleting everything on it and resetting it. I forgot to mention
that i do have an external hard drive with me that has my laptop backed
up from march, without tiger but with osx 10.3 or something. Could
this be used to solve my problem? i have a lot of data and photos on
the computer that i would hate to lose.

The "performance issues" may be have been caused by the problems with
the hard disk. The attempt to install onto the hard disk ran into those
same problems. This is why it is good to verify the disk (using Disk
Utility, which is on the installation disk) before actually performing
the installation.

It is correct that reformatting would fix the problem but would lose
everything that is on there.

If the external drive is bootable then yes, just boot from it and use
it. Here's how. Connect the external drive via firewire (I presume) and
start it up; now start up the computer while holding down the Option
key. Keep holding it down. It may take a while but eventually it will
show you the 10.3 on the external drive. You can then select it and
start up with that.

The internal drive is borked, so store any new data, photos, etc., on
the external drive. You MIGHT even be able to secure your old photos by
copying them from the internal drive to the external.

That will be the situation until you get home. You will then want to
back up everything that can be backed up from the internal drive, and
try running DiskWarrior on it. m.

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