Power Mac - My computer is frying hard drives!

jeffro · jeffro #1 (**permalink**)

01-02-2007, 12:58 AM

Alright, this is a bit interesting...

So, I have a G4 400 mhz with an upgraded processor going at 1.4 ghz. It's been running like a champ for many years.
Recently, my computer froze and on the restart I got the dreaded question mark.

After much troubleshooting and cursing, I ended up ebaying another mac g4. Long story short, I ended up using a new hard drive in the old computer. After a lot of switching around, one of the internal drives won't spin, the other one spins but isn't recognized, AND I plugged in an external firewire drive and the computer crashed and now THAT one isn't being recognized.

The disk repair utility is saying that it can't repair them. I use my cpu for business and have been unable to work for a few weeks now because of this. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

baggss · baggss #2 (**permalink**)

01-02-2007, 01:46 AM

Probably a bad internal ATA bus. Buy a PCI ATA card and continue on.

jeffro · jeffro #3 (**permalink**)

01-02-2007, 02:27 AM

Thanks for the quick reply!

Any chance of getting the data off of these drives, ya think?

SuB8HaVeN · SuB8HaVeN #4 (**permalink**)

01-02-2007, 07:47 PM

You can probably do that once you get a drive up and running to load OSX, then try and plug in the other drives and see if you can find anything.

baggss · baggss #5 (**permalink**)

01-02-2007, 08:48 PM

Maybe, but you may have to Pay for it.

SuB8HaVeN #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 29, 2006 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 217 Mac Specs: Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz	01-02-2007, 07:47 PM You can probably do that once you get a drive up and running to load OSX, then try and plug in the other drives and see if you can find anything. 12" Powerbook G4 1.5GHz/512MB/Superdrive/100GB Seagate Momentus 7200.1 PowerMac G3 B&W 350MHz/1GB/DVD-RW/Adaptec 39160 2X Seagate 36GB 15k RAID0 Dell E521 AMD X2 4600+/2GB/7600GT/320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
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jeffro #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 2	01-02-2007, 12:58 AM Alright, this is a bit interesting... So, I have a G4 400 mhz with an upgraded processor going at 1.4 ghz. It's been running like a champ for many years. Recently, my computer froze and on the restart I got the dreaded question mark. After much troubleshooting and cursing, I ended up ebaying another mac g4. Long story short, I ended up using a new hard drive in the old computer. After a lot of switching around, one of the internal drives won't spin, the other one spins but isn't recognized, AND I plugged in an external firewire drive and the computer crashed and now THAT one isn't being recognized. The disk repair utility is saying that it can't repair them. I use my cpu for business and have been unable to work for a few weeks now because of this. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
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baggss #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 10, 2004 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 10,306 Mac Specs: 27" 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac-13" C2D Macbook-OSX 18.8.2-64Gb iPad 2-32 Gb iPhone 5-ATV 2-14Tb of Storage	01-02-2007, 01:46 AM Probably a bad internal ATA bus. Buy a PCI ATA card and continue on.
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baggss #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 10, 2004 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 10,306 Mac Specs: 27" 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac-13" C2D Macbook-OSX 18.8.2-64Gb iPad 2-32 Gb iPhone 5-ATV 2-14Tb of Storage	01-02-2007, 08:48 PM Maybe, but you may have to Pay for it.
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