PB Titanium freezes on boot; Volume error

Erratic behavior followed a "force quit" on Palm Desktop. On reboot error message while attempting to open Palm Desktop, "...unexpected end of file." Corrected that with backed up file but then erratic behaviors involving freezes during and after reboot began. Freezes can only resolved by shutting down and restarting. Sometimes video screen dark with portions of boot up screen visible. Unable to replicate behaviors, results too erratic. Ran TechTools boot disk, initially hardware and file tests "passed". Then a force quit on Geditcom (normally very stable!), returned the behaviors involving freezes. Reset PMU, Reran Disk First Aid and Tech Tool unable to repair. produced this error message, "Missing thread record (id = 4407162) Error the underlying on ent (-9972) Repair attempted 1 volume could not be repaired. Resore disk only seem to allow erasing the volume not restoring OSX (10.3.9). Changed the start up disk to a "PB Clone" (with systemfiles) on on a firewire external hard drive. Chime sounds, screen lights, apple appears, pinwheel does not, screen goes dark nothing faintly visible. CTRLCOMMANDPower Button restarts the same sequence and results.
Anxious not to destroy the data files unless I have to. Suspect that there the current state may perhaps be hardware despite the "passed" Tech Tool tests, perhaps video and/or keyboard although like problems had ocurred with USB keyboard and external display during earlier troubleshooting.
Don't understand why my firewire external Powerbook will not start up. The Apple Restore Disk and Tech Tool boot disk work although the video light up has some idiosyncracies?
Is it likely that I can put it in "firewire mode (Target Disc)" and access the files on its HD?
Sure could use some theories or solutions.
Bill
PowerBook 1 GHz, G4,Titanium, 15,2/512/60 GB/1 SD/56K/AIRPORT, S/N: QT 2481VLN4M, Airport Id: U 0 30 65 24 EI BE; Ethernet ID: 00 OA95 66 DF DE; Battery PB G4 144VA102 ZZ2465 FBNNBA

Hi tirediron,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Is it likely that I can put it in "firewire mode (Target Disc)" and access the files on its HD?
I don't know what the odds are, but if you have access to another FW Mac, there's no reason not to try; it'll only cost you $10-15 for a FW cable (if you don't have one) and a minute or two of your time to find out.

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Hello all,
New user, first post - after problem, of course.
I have an R61 Thinkpad with Windows XP on it. (SP2 or SP3, not sure). Has worked flawlessly for years, then the other day I got the dreaded "unmountable boot volume" error and it would not start.
No problem - I re-start, hit the ThinkVantage button, then hit F11 to use the R&R hidden on a separate partition of the hard drive........I get the black screen with the big progress bar, ok, then a blue screen......then nothing. Hangs up and sits there. I have repeated this about 5 times now.
No problem! - I was smart enough to make an R&R CD set a while ago! Put the primary R&R disk in the CD drive, start the machine, ThinkPad button, F12 this time to choose boot from CD.....much CD activity ensues and I once again get the black screen with the big progress bar. It takes much longer, and I get teh blue screen - BUT - then it goes one extra step to display the "ThinkVantage Rescue & Recovery 4" screen with the life preserver image.
Excellent, I thing - except it then hangs there. Just sits there. No disk activity. No keys will do anything.
I can find no threads here or on any other forum with this particular issue.
Am I fubar? Or is there something else I can do?
Thanks a bunch.
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Hi jim, welcome to the forums,
Is the hard drive recognised in BIOS, was there an entry in the boot list against HDD0?
Regardless of it being shown in BIOS / boot list or not, the first thing I would do is to reseat the hard drive and see if that helps, maybe over time it's lost contact to the mainboard socket. If you don't know how to do this you can find out at the R61 movies site.
The next thing I would do is run a hard drive diagnosis check from a bootable cd, these can be downloaded from all HDD manufacturer's websites e.g. Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test. It may be that the drive has simply gone bad after all those years of work.
Let us know how you get on
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Hi Members,
I just encountered the the Error Unmountable Boot volume error(Blue Screen) in my Z61T Think pad laptop.
I'm not sure what caused this error. Is it possible to fix the error?
I tried to go in to Recovery Console using XP CD and then repair the OS, but unfortunately when i go to repair mode i get another error which says unable to recognize the hard drive. Im really confused as of what is the exact problem with my laptop and also im worried about that data.
appreciate if anyone can throw some light in to the issue and help me out in fixing the same.
Thanks
Rajesh

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Help!!! T61 Blue Screen--unmountable boot volume-- error code 0000: Read verification failed

My computer is T61 (8891CT), but Blue Screen came out and reported--unmountable boot volume. I ran the diagnostic program and got the error code 0000: Read verification failed. I can’t run anything now including the restore and rescue. Has the hard drive died?
If the hard drive has died, I have to change the hard drive, but how to transfer the system (I don’t have any CD) and think vantage software? Thank you very much for you help.

Hi equalefk,
Yes, definitely sounds like it's time to replace the HDD.
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