G4 won't boot

[Randy Burleson]

OK... I screwed up...
I was defragging my hard drive with an older version of TechTool Pro 4 not the newest version for Tiger. It locked up in the middle of defragging and I had to power down. Now the computer will not boot.
I have run Disk Utility and the volume checks out OK but it could not repair or rebuild the volume. I tried booting in single user mode but got the message "can't determine dependencies" and
"Panic: we are hanging here..."
I have tried Disk Warrior and the graph looks great, but it didn't help, still won't boot.
what are my options?
BTW... I am running on a dual 867 G4 768 RAM OS 10.4.2
I do have a Seagate 400GB Firewire drive attached.

 

[Randy Burleson]

Hey guys..
Disk Warrior was unable to repair the drive. it was too badly damaged.
However...
Data Rescue by Prosoft Engineering really saved my bacon.

It was a rather lengthy process and I only had a few casualties..corrupted files..but it worked and I am back up and running now.
Once I recovered my hard drive to my external FW drive. I erased and reinstalled Tiger from scratch on the hard drive and then copied over the user files and applications. Some applications were corrupted but I will reinstall those from disc anyway.
I am singing the praises of Data Rescue X right now. It was able to save what would have been an otherwise hopeless situation. I highly recommend it
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