Hi all,
I believe I am having some significant problems with multiple internal drives and was hoping I could gather some advice and info here.
I have 3 internal drives on a g4 MDD 1.25 ghz. About a week ago I started to notice some strange problems when i tried to save files to one of the drives. I ran Disc Utilities and found errors that were confirmed by tech tool pro to be bad blocks. I backed up all the data and reformatted the drive with the write zeros option as per the advice of Techtool pro 4.
Upon restoring the drive I still got many bad block errors so I figured that the drive was dead. Fine.
The drive currently is mounted but there is no data on it at all.
All the data that was on that drive has been transferred to the other non-boot drive.
Now I am noticing that I am getting the "spinning ball" quite frequently and often times for no apparent reason. Even if I eject the drive with no data it doesnt seem to help. To make matters worse, now when I open disc utilities, the spinning ball just stays there as the disc utilities window says "gathering disc information" I have waited up to 10 minutes for disc utilities to gather the information without any luck. During this time, the computer becomes unusably sluggish.
Any ideas? Im a long time mac user (apple II G was my first) but not the greatest tech person so any advice would be greatly welcome.
Thanks
Andy
I believe I am having some significant problems with multiple internal drives and was hoping I could gather some advice and info here.
I have 3 internal drives on a g4 MDD 1.25 ghz. About a week ago I started to notice some strange problems when i tried to save files to one of the drives. I ran Disc Utilities and found errors that were confirmed by tech tool pro to be bad blocks. I backed up all the data and reformatted the drive with the write zeros option as per the advice of Techtool pro 4.
Upon restoring the drive I still got many bad block errors so I figured that the drive was dead. Fine.
The drive currently is mounted but there is no data on it at all.
All the data that was on that drive has been transferred to the other non-boot drive.
Now I am noticing that I am getting the "spinning ball" quite frequently and often times for no apparent reason. Even if I eject the drive with no data it doesnt seem to help. To make matters worse, now when I open disc utilities, the spinning ball just stays there as the disc utilities window says "gathering disc information" I have waited up to 10 minutes for disc utilities to gather the information without any luck. During this time, the computer becomes unusably sluggish.
Any ideas? Im a long time mac user (apple II G was my first) but not the greatest tech person so any advice would be greatly welcome.
Thanks
Andy