On 21 Jul 2011, at 17:55, Baldassare Guzzo wrote: > G4 933, OS 10.4.11 > Got the "spinning clock" (not the colorful beach ball) trying to boot. > Finally, after many hours - got to boot off the 10.4 disk. Disk Utility > found errors and couldnt repair it (can not unmount disk, invalid node > structure, failed rebuilding b-tree, and "The underlying task reported > failure on exit". Tech tool found errors and couldnt repair it. Onyx does > not work on a different drive - only the one that is mounted? OWC says to > contact Seagate. Any ideas before I pull it out and condemn it? Should I > bother to re-format the disk? Thank YOU Carbon Copy Cloner - you saved my > behind. I had a 3 day old copy on another drive!
I would try DiskWarrior before anything else:- or if you can't, then put the disk in a PC, reformat it, then put it back in your Mac & reformat again. Ted -- 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
