iBook Help - Turned Thank god for Disc Warrior

thewitt · Sep 30th, 2004, 03:33 PM

My iBook is being just plain weird.

I came home last night an the wife says, my book isn't working. So I try to start it and it hangs, then give the multi-lingual restart you computer screen. I try to boot off a disc warrior disc and it won't, to I boot it in target mode and run DW from my tower. It fails to repair the disc.

Today it did boot of a panther disc and disc utility also can not repair the disc. It doesn't 'see' a disc to install to. Also, it does not show up as a target disc.

Any thoughts? What is the next step? Is the HD pooped out?
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Well, Disc Utility fixed it enough that it finally would boot off af the DW disc. Then DW did repair it. Yippee!!

[ September 30, 2004, 04:39 PM: Message edited by: thewitt ]

Chipper · Sep 30th, 2004, 04:13 PM

Glad to hear that DiskWarrior saved the day, but I'd be backing up the contents of the iBook hard drive regularly from here on if I were you.

Been there, done that! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

thewitt · Sep 30th, 2004, 04:39 PM

Don't worry, it is backed up, that wasn't an issue. The fact that it would not boot or be booted by disc was the troubling part.

It is still very slow to restart, I believe there is a problem.

MacDoc · Sep 30th, 2004, 08:34 PM

Check how much disc space is left. I had a weird one where my drive filled up - never did figure out why.
Had to strip it off ( the copy was fine ) and reformat. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

thewitt · Oct 1st, 2004, 12:05 PM

Thanks MD. I've seen that as well. It isn't the case here as there is 30Gb free.

I am just trying to move some files around (nothing important, just some video that was recently put on that isn't backed up) and it is taking f-o-r-e-v-e---r. I am trying to move 18Gb and it has taken 5 house so far and says it will take 3 more.

When that finishes I will run a hardware test, and it that comes out ok, I will reformat and re-install.

Any other thoughts?