On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote:
> Sounds like the boot drive is failing. Must be about 5 years old by now. Have
> you run fsck or Disk Warrior on it? I'd get a new drive asap.
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:16 AM, Tulse X. Luper wrote:
>
>> Greetings, group. I have a dual PowerPC G5 running OSX 10.4.4 (yeah a little
>> out of date). Recently, it's been having trouble booting... seems to occur
>> right before USB initiation. I hear the disk cycling over the same spot for
>> a while. If it does come up, the USB is hosed. Hitting the switch cures the
>> problem. But the number of failed boots is *slowly* increasing, and now
>> happens maybe once a month. (I only keep the PPC on when I use it, once or
>> twice a day.) Any ideas what is deteriorating? Any easy fix? Thanks!
>>
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>
I'll second that, but I suspect that if the boot drive is failing, Disk Warrior
or fsck won't help much. I'd suggest you back up your data on to an external
drive--if you can't use USB, get a FireWire drive to use--and then install a
new internal drive. Do check the S.M.A.R.T. status in Disk Utility,
though--that may tell you whether something's amiss in the hardware (or it
might not).
-- Andrew
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