Hi Rosie,
Sorry to hear of your ongoing problems.
As a first suggestion, have your tried resetting the PRAM, and then rebuilding the desktop?
I do it in this order, and this way can do both in one restart procedure. First, hold down the the 'command', 'option', 'p' and 'r' keys while the machine is restarting and after the screen has gone black. Let the machine do the regular startup 'chime' at least three times. This will flush the PRAM that could have gotten jumbled. After the last chime, release the 'p' and 'r' keys while still holding down the 'command' and 'option' keys. Keep holding these keys down until presented with a dialogue box asking if you want to rebuilding the desktop file on the drive. At his point, and on my machine, I release the keys knowing that it will continue to offer me this option for each additional partition and drive.
Another possible consideration is that the hard drive needs to be replaced. Do you have another one that you try out, thereby isolating the origin of your problem?
Failing this, do you have a copy of Norton that you can assign more working memory to? I find this solves a lot of problems when confronted with that same problem of it not being able to solve a problem.
I have a slightly older, beige G3 that originally came with a Zip drive. At the time, Iomega who made the drive I had was plagued by numerous problems with faulty drives. I eventually got ride of it and opted instead for an external SCSI based one. Since then, I've not encountered the dreaded 'click of death'.
So why not try disconnecting the connection to your internal Zip drive? Perhaps this is where your problem is originating?
All of this should be pretty easy to do, without having to take your machine into a shop. Of course this assumes, your machine isn't still covered by some sort of warranty.
All you really need to do any of this is a standard Phillips screwdriver.
However, and getting hack to a software solution, have you tried completely reformatting the hard drive? Use the Apple Disk program, and select 'write zeros' to the entire drive.
Hopefully, one of these suggestions should work for you.
Bill
At 10:43 AM -0500 2/12/2004, Rosie Griffeth wrote:
You guys were really helpful about my problem getting my old iMac drive
recovered. I tried all of your suggestions regarding the master/slave, hard
drive enclosure, plugging into one of the other drives...etc.
Unfortunately, the drive was just too damaged for regular solutions and I
ended up taking it in to the MCS and paying gobs of money to have it
recovered.
I'm writing about the B & W that I got to replace the iMac. It's a very clean rev. 2, 12 GB, 400mhz machine. It has consistently failed read the zip drive with the exception of one time. It came loaded with 9.2 which crashed and failed to recognize the hard drive. I then loaded 8.6 on it (because I had that...I'm waiting on a 9.2 install disk), reformatted and set it up with four partitions. It then failed to recognize the USB ports. At a loss as to how to work on it with no mouse...I took it to MCS who loaded 9.1...still with my 4 partitions on it. This solved the mouse problem. It is now exhibiting the same symptoms that it has prior to each previous crash. Namely, it freezes in such a way that I'm forced to turn it off. Then Disk First Aid reports a problem on the start-up drive that it cannot repair. Norton then reports an "unexpected" problem that it cannot scan. There are problems on all of the partitions.
I'm really at a loss as to what is going on here. Is it software? I have lots of graphics programs...illustrator, PhotoShop, flash. The first crash was precipitated by Norton...or so it seemed. The second occurred after loading the drivers for the hard drive enclosure. The last freeze happened as I was attempting to get into extension manager to make sure the extensions for my LaCie CDRW were on....I couldn't get it to show the CDRW on the desktop.
Sorry if I seem to be babbling incoherently...that seems to be the trend now with this machine. I really want this computer to work, but I'm stymied as to why this keeps happening. Obviously, If I have to reload the OS every few days to a week, this is not the optimum situation.
Best,
Rosie
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