On Aug 25, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Iamanamma wrote: >> 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.
How long had the computer been running prior to shutting it down and then moving it? It's possible the damage happened far in the past but only made itself known when the computer was booted. This is a probably common occurrence, when the computer is running for an extended period then is shutdown / restarted for some particular reason and then it won't start up. The reason for shutdown / restart becomes suspect (the move in this case) when the real problem may have happened at any time prior. It isn't so common with Pre-OS X as X is less prone to crashing and most of the machines X runs on can sleep as opposed to earlier machines that don't sleep and therefore tend to get shut off overnight. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
