Wellp... Booting into OS9 CD, then resetting it to boot off of hard disk: Was supposed to work but didn't, still got the question mark. Thought I'd try somethin' elst... dusted off an old cd of DiskWarrior, which boots up into OS9. Ran it to rebuild the directory. That was at 5:00. It's now 9:00 and it's still cranking. It's presently on step 6 of 11, says it has detected 578 overlapped files (so far, and I know it's still working because that number's still growing)
Meantime, I cleaned off a spare Maxtor 80 in case I have to start over. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clark Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Problem: OS X bootup sees dreaded question mark disk. > Boot off an OS 9 CD and use the Startup Disk control panel to set the > OS X system on the HD as the start disk. Then restart. > > At 10:44 AM -0700 10/16/04, Lou Wilson wrote: > >Problem: OS X bootup sees dreaded question mark disk. > > > >Platform: OS X ver 10.2.8, G3 Beige/Sonnet G3 500, 768mB ram, Sonnet IDE > >card, 60gB Maxtor drive. > > > >History: About 3 days ago I was merrily toodling along reading email in Mail > >(probably irrelevant), and alluvasudden the system just froze. So After > >waiting about 3 minutes for it to unfreeze I hit the startup button. > > > >On startup it got stuck in the middle of the thermometer - the animation on > >the thermometer was active, but the thermometer just stuck about 1/2 way - > >for over an hour. Same behavior in several subsequent boot attempts. > > > >So I rebooted with the OS X disk (10.2.6, I think) and ran disk utility. > >There were many problems that didn't go away (identified by disk utilities > >as still being there after I ran it). On attempting to reboot from the HD I > >got the question mark floppy; G3 couldn't find my hard disk anymore. So, > >Disk Utility just appears to have made the problem worse. > > > >I flashed the pram 15 times in a row and still got the question mark floppy. > > > >But Disk Utility still sees the hard disk. On attempting to re-install OS X > >from the Jaguar cd it told me it couldn't do it because I already had OS X > >present in a later version (I had previously done the on-line upgrade to > >10.2.8). > > > >I am now cleaning stuff off another HD to prepare to use it for a 'fresh > >install', but here's my question: > >Any other suggestions for me to reclaim this drive? > > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > > -- > G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
