> The fellow who uses it decided to move it from his desktop to the
> slide out shelf inside his desk, and everything started going downhill
> from there.

He swears he didn't drop it, bump it, or otherwise mishandle it.

> I would try reseating the RAM after blowing out any dust ... and get
> rid of Norton Utilities.

I moved the drive to a different G3, and ran Diskwarrior instead.  The
drive will not boot at all now, I get a "No bootable HFS partition"
message.  When I boot from the Norton Utlities or the DiskWarrior CD,
the G3 can see the drive.  When I boot from the G3 software disk from
Apple, it cannot.  I wanted re-initialize it, but with the System
software disk unable to see the drive, that's not happening.

> This sounds like a HDD problem to me, moving it had nothing to do
> with the problem sounds like a Maxtor issue

The next time I open the case, I'll look to see what brand the drive
is.  My ability to tell through the software is somewhat limited right
now.

>  let us know what it is first.??

The beige desktop is a 300 mhz unit  with 384 meg of RAM installed, if
that is any help.

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