After hours and hours of the reboot/crash process I managed to somehow get my Office data folder backed up. Other than that it seems all is lost.
I finally booted into the DiskWarrior cd and tried to rebuild the harddrive, but it said it couldn't because there were too many errors. I'm guessing that means that all of my problems are hard drive related and it was simply a coincidence that it happened just after I updated to 10.4.1.
I would like to do a fresh install of Tiger just to see if it works, but I can't run it for some reason. It crashes every time...
Is there a process where I can boot into something to format the drive? Similar to booting into a dos prompt and formatting in windows? I'd like to wipe the drive myself and then (hopefully) install the OS fresh.
Of course, when that doesn't work I'm going to have to probably replace the drive (which I can hopefully upgrade to 100GB...I've got to find a bright side)...what are some sites I can find G4 Powerbook hard drives? I was looking here .
Also, is it a fairly painless procedure? I'm guessing that once I get the weird screws that I don't have a tool for out and remove the plate on the bottom it's a snap out/snap in process.
I finally booted into the DiskWarrior cd and tried to rebuild the harddrive, but it said it couldn't because there were too many errors. I'm guessing that means that all of my problems are hard drive related and it was simply a coincidence that it happened just after I updated to 10.4.1.
I would like to do a fresh install of Tiger just to see if it works, but I can't run it for some reason. It crashes every time...
Is there a process where I can boot into something to format the drive? Similar to booting into a dos prompt and formatting in windows? I'd like to wipe the drive myself and then (hopefully) install the OS fresh.
Of course, when that doesn't work I'm going to have to probably replace the drive (which I can hopefully upgrade to 100GB...I've got to find a bright side)...what are some sites I can find G4 Powerbook hard drives? I was looking here .
Also, is it a fairly painless procedure? I'm guessing that once I get the weird screws that I don't have a tool for out and remove the plate on the bottom it's a snap out/snap in process.