No! I didn't wipe it - in fact it had accessible osX folders etc when I was able to see it in OS 9. I don't use norton systemworks [maybe I should have!!] but in drive 10 when it did the media check it found damaged blocks that it termed "very unusual" or something of that ilk. It then saved...
Last night I decided to add an old HD to my G3 with OSX 10.2.5 and at some point in the process I ended up with an endless spinning beachball on startup [the ball came up after the introductory OS X startup screens; right when you'd expect things to be complete.] I ran fsck -y in single user...
