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Dear all,
after booting, my Powerbook is stuck on the desktop screen.
I am new to Macs; bought a PB G4 with preinstalled Tiger a month ago. Yesterday I noticed that Camino was hanging so I pressed the ON button forcing the machine to shut down.
Here's where the problem starts. As I tried to turn it on, the machine got stuck on desktop screen.
I've already gone through the sticky post with "instant fixes" to no avail. I booted in single-user mode and attempted to use fsck -y to which I got a "Volume is journaled. No checking performed". I tried then a forced fsck and this is exactly what I got back:
** /dev/rdisk0s3
** Root file system
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
disk0s3: I/O error.
Invalid sibling link
(4, 16973)
** Volume check failed.
Please help! To make matters worse I bought this from a guy that misplaced the original OS disk. Thinking I would never need it I agreed. Oh, and by the way, I am currently posted in India, so no Mac support readily available (me thinks).
Thanks for your help.
after booting, my Powerbook is stuck on the desktop screen.
I am new to Macs; bought a PB G4 with preinstalled Tiger a month ago. Yesterday I noticed that Camino was hanging so I pressed the ON button forcing the machine to shut down.
Here's where the problem starts. As I tried to turn it on, the machine got stuck on desktop screen.
I've already gone through the sticky post with "instant fixes" to no avail. I booted in single-user mode and attempted to use fsck -y to which I got a "Volume is journaled. No checking performed". I tried then a forced fsck and this is exactly what I got back:
** /dev/rdisk0s3
** Root file system
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
disk0s3: I/O error.
Invalid sibling link
(4, 16973)
** Volume check failed.
Please help! To make matters worse I bought this from a guy that misplaced the original OS disk. Thinking I would never need it I agreed. Oh, and by the way, I am currently posted in India, so no Mac support readily available (me thinks).
Thanks for your help.