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<blockquote data-quote="Rainwater" data-source="post: 273573"><p>After running disk repair to repair a drive, my Powerbook G4 will no longer boot or find the installed disk drive. (I'm not sure what was wrong with the drive, but 'verify' said there was a problem although the computer seemed to be running fine).</p><p></p><p>I tried all of the advice here - ran disk repair 2-3 times, tried fsck, reset PRAM (whatever that is), even attempted to reinstall OS X but it can not find the disk drive and I can't get the volume to mount.</p><p></p><p>I'm wondering - should I try Disk Warrior or simply replace the drive? The only message I get when running repair is keys out of order and repairing the B-tree (?) then underlying process failed ... Does this sound like something DW could repair? I would hate to spend $100 on DW then have buy a new drive anyway. I really don't have any 'mission critical' stuff on this computer, but it would be a pain to get it set back up with a new drive.</p><p></p><p>Anyone had a similar experience? Should I just jump to a new drive and forget about attempting a repair?</p><p></p><p>Any guidance/experience you can provide would be appreciated.</p><p></p><p>- Rainwater</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rainwater, post: 273573"] After running disk repair to repair a drive, my Powerbook G4 will no longer boot or find the installed disk drive. (I'm not sure what was wrong with the drive, but 'verify' said there was a problem although the computer seemed to be running fine). I tried all of the advice here - ran disk repair 2-3 times, tried fsck, reset PRAM (whatever that is), even attempted to reinstall OS X but it can not find the disk drive and I can't get the volume to mount. I'm wondering - should I try Disk Warrior or simply replace the drive? The only message I get when running repair is keys out of order and repairing the B-tree (?) then underlying process failed ... Does this sound like something DW could repair? I would hate to spend $100 on DW then have buy a new drive anyway. I really don't have any 'mission critical' stuff on this computer, but it would be a pain to get it set back up with a new drive. Anyone had a similar experience? Should I just jump to a new drive and forget about attempting a repair? Any guidance/experience you can provide would be appreciated. - Rainwater [/QUOTE]
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