AdmiralAK
Simply Daemonic
Wow!
Haven't seen this one in a very very long time!
I put my computer to sleep, put it in my computer bag, came to work, it did not come out of sleep. So I kept the power button pressed to shut it down, turned it back on and it keeps flashing the folder with the "?"
1. I zapped the PRAM - nothing
2. I pressed the option key as I tried to bootup (to get the startup manager) - my hard drive does not show as mounted.
3. I attempted a disk utility fix with the installation CD, but again, the HD does not show as mounted.
4. I Booted the powerbook in Target mode and hooked it up to a mac mini - the mac mini recognized (in the System Profiler) that there is a mac in target disk mode, but no disk is mounting on the desktop, and the disk utility does not recognize the disk in the laptop
Now I have two theories:
1. my hard drive is fried because it felt a bit warm when I pulled out out of my laptop bag
2. Something got jossled (sp?) while transporting the machine (I had to break REALLY hard because some idiot almost rammed me this morning coming to work)
Anyone have any suggestions as to what to do next? I am fresh out of ideas. I would open the thing up to make sure the cables are OK, but I dont have the necessary stuff at work. Any other Software solution I can try without opening the unit up?
Haven't seen this one in a very very long time!
I put my computer to sleep, put it in my computer bag, came to work, it did not come out of sleep. So I kept the power button pressed to shut it down, turned it back on and it keeps flashing the folder with the "?"
1. I zapped the PRAM - nothing
2. I pressed the option key as I tried to bootup (to get the startup manager) - my hard drive does not show as mounted.
3. I attempted a disk utility fix with the installation CD, but again, the HD does not show as mounted.
4. I Booted the powerbook in Target mode and hooked it up to a mac mini - the mac mini recognized (in the System Profiler) that there is a mac in target disk mode, but no disk is mounting on the desktop, and the disk utility does not recognize the disk in the laptop
Now I have two theories:
1. my hard drive is fried because it felt a bit warm when I pulled out out of my laptop bag
2. Something got jossled (sp?) while transporting the machine (I had to break REALLY hard because some idiot almost rammed me this morning coming to work)

Anyone have any suggestions as to what to do next? I am fresh out of ideas. I would open the thing up to make sure the cables are OK, but I dont have the necessary stuff at work. Any other Software solution I can try without opening the unit up?