parkerdude
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I have a 2002 Dual usb iBook, 384mb ram, 30 gig internal hd, and an external 200gig firewire hd. The external drive is partitioned into 80gig and 120gig volumes, both have OS X 10.4 installed. I use this drive for back-up and to help with maintenance for my internal hd. My wife's G4 started acting up so I backed-up her user to the external's first volume. If I boot from the external or if I boot from the internal drive and then turn on the external without any applications running, just a few minutes after login the spinning beach ball comes up and it looks like the processor goes to 100%. I've left it like that for a couple of hours without it stopping. I don't have any recourse but to do a forced shut down. If I boot from the internal drive, turn on the external the spinning beachball pops up and it hangs up. If I turn the external drive off the spinning beachball goes away. I've done an erase and install of the OS, "repaired permissions" "repaired" the drive with disk utility, I've run Disk Warrior with no success. Got any ideas how to repair this?