At 5:22 AM -0700 10/27/2008, Ulf wrote:
>I tried to repair a PowerMac G3

Which Power Mac G3, and the rest of your config...?  OS?

Answers are often more on point if you provide context / details.

>machine's crashing very often, one of the DIMMs was the reason.
>
>After that I started a filesystem check and since then the PowerMac
>wouldn't start any more. When starting from an installation DVD and
>starting the harddisk manager application the volume is greyed out

Disk Utility sees the drive but won't even try to repair it?  When 
you were inside the Power Mac, you might have loosened the drive's 
data or power cables, etc.  Try reseating them on both the drive and 
the motherboard.

If that doesn't work, then you might have killed the drive.  If you 
don't have a backup, as Ken suggests, try Data Rescue's free demo - 
if it can recover anything it will tell you - for free.  You don't 
have to pay unless you want to do a full recovery.

- Dan.
-- 
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

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