Hello all,
I bought a new SATA 120Gb Maxtor hard drive last week, and installed it into my PowerMac Dual 1.8 G5. It was working fine for a week; I had copied most of my computers data to it. On Saturday it gave me an access error while copying a file. At first I thought nothing of it, but then it happened again to a different file a few hours later. Finally while downloading a file to the 2nd hard drive Finder completely locked up. I let the computer sit for a while and when I came back it was still frozen. My only option was to kill the power.
When it turned back on the 2nd hard drive was not mounted on the desktop. I ran disk utility and tried to verify but was told that the drive needed to be repaired. When I attempted repair it told me Disk utility stopped repairing. "The underlying task reported failure on exit". Most of the files I had copied were backed up, so I just decided to reformat the hard drive (zero rewrite).
After the hard drive reformat was done I ran verify and repair again with the same results. I used a copy of Disk Warrior to check the 2nd hard drive and about half way through the process it froze. Not wanting to worsen the situation I let it sit for nearly 24 hours hoping it would complete, but eventually I had to power off again.
When I booted back up the drive was not mounted again. I tried to reboot using the Disk Warrior CD and noticed that OSX was IGNORING ALL OF MY BOOT KEYS. I attempted 'C' to boot from the CD, CMD+OPT+SHFT+DEL to ignore the hard drive, CMD+OPT+P+R, Safe-Mode SHIFT... none of them worked. I inserted my Tiger CD and clicked the install button which told the computer to reboot. Once it was up I ran disk utility from the Tiger CD. Then, purely on accident, I ran verify on my main hard drive. It also reported errors, and when I ran repair, I was given the exact same error messages as above.
My Disk Warrior CD is good, as verified in another computer, but it will not boot the problem machine. I was hoping for a just bad hard drive all weekend, but things are starting to look worse and worse. I am going to try to test the hard drive in another computer this afternoon then change my boot options to use the Disk Warrior CD, but I am not sure what will be the result of either of these attempts.
Help, please.
I bought a new SATA 120Gb Maxtor hard drive last week, and installed it into my PowerMac Dual 1.8 G5. It was working fine for a week; I had copied most of my computers data to it. On Saturday it gave me an access error while copying a file. At first I thought nothing of it, but then it happened again to a different file a few hours later. Finally while downloading a file to the 2nd hard drive Finder completely locked up. I let the computer sit for a while and when I came back it was still frozen. My only option was to kill the power.
When it turned back on the 2nd hard drive was not mounted on the desktop. I ran disk utility and tried to verify but was told that the drive needed to be repaired. When I attempted repair it told me Disk utility stopped repairing. "The underlying task reported failure on exit". Most of the files I had copied were backed up, so I just decided to reformat the hard drive (zero rewrite).
After the hard drive reformat was done I ran verify and repair again with the same results. I used a copy of Disk Warrior to check the 2nd hard drive and about half way through the process it froze. Not wanting to worsen the situation I let it sit for nearly 24 hours hoping it would complete, but eventually I had to power off again.
When I booted back up the drive was not mounted again. I tried to reboot using the Disk Warrior CD and noticed that OSX was IGNORING ALL OF MY BOOT KEYS. I attempted 'C' to boot from the CD, CMD+OPT+SHFT+DEL to ignore the hard drive, CMD+OPT+P+R, Safe-Mode SHIFT... none of them worked. I inserted my Tiger CD and clicked the install button which told the computer to reboot. Once it was up I ran disk utility from the Tiger CD. Then, purely on accident, I ran verify on my main hard drive. It also reported errors, and when I ran repair, I was given the exact same error messages as above.
My Disk Warrior CD is good, as verified in another computer, but it will not boot the problem machine. I was hoping for a just bad hard drive all weekend, but things are starting to look worse and worse. I am going to try to test the hard drive in another computer this afternoon then change my boot options to use the Disk Warrior CD, but I am not sure what will be the result of either of these attempts.
Help, please.
