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Son of Narnia - Jul 30, 2005 - 1:32 am

hi. dont know what happened but i startup my PB and i get to the grey screen with the apple logo and the spinning gear.........forever. sometimes i hear a beep at the beginning before the startup chime, but not all the time.

i have tried:
- getting into safe mood (wont get in)
- ran disk utility from the install disk and ran 'repair disk' and got back "first aid failed. the underlying task reported failure on exit." it was checking "catalog file" and reported that "keys our of order."
- reset PRAM

thank you in advanced

Son of Narnia - Jul 30, 2005 - 1:38 am

sorry, its a 12" g4 powerbook superdrive

bobw - Jul 30, 2005 - 1:24 pm

Hi Jon

There's only one utility that MAY fix the 'keys out of order' problem.

That error means that the B-tree records or referenced records have become damaged. This is a serious hard drive error.

I highly recommend that you get Disk Warrior for the machine;

http://www.alsoft.com

The only other option is to reformat the drive.
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Son of Narnia - Aug 3, 2005 - 12:39 am

i was just wondering how that could happen, so i dont do it again.

bobw - Aug 3, 2005 - 9:26 am

Jon

It would be impossible to say how it happened.

Could be faulty/corrupt software, hard disk more than 85% full, etc.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support