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Very strange problem. I installed 10.4.6 on two different computers at two different times. PowerBook G4 17" and emac G4. Soon thereafter the PowerBook started going into startup ****, that is the gray spinning timer would sit there for several HOURS and no bootup. So, I forced it to restart ---- bad move. The drive became unusable. TechTool reported MANY bad sectors. DiskWarrior managed to salvage the directory but cannot overwrite the existing bad directory so I am salvaging the files to an external hard disk. I tried dragging folders off the "virtual" repaired directory DiskWarrior made but almost every large file gave Errors so I ran Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the virtual repaired PowerBook directory over to the external drive. Carbon Copy Cloner is not a rocket and usually would take a few hours to copy my drive in the past for backups. Now the damage is so bad in 48 HOURS only 12GB has been copied, 60 more to go, so I have started using my PowerMac G4 with a backup of all my mail etc. and other items.
Separately, 2 days later, I installed the update on the eMac. It ran fine for a few hours. I did a normal shutdown. Next morning, it has the same gray spinner sitting on the front screen for 12 hours.... the hardware of the eMac is OK, since I was able to boot it off my previous PowerBook G3 500 in Target Disk mode... DiskWarrior rebuilt the directory on the eMac but still it is not going past the spinning wheel gray apple...
Two machines separate from each other both having startup failures after an update.... makes me wonder... could be bad luck, or coincidence... but just wanted to post here in case someone else has had problems and thought it was just their issue....
Let me know if you have some ideas on what may be the problem. Thanks/
Imran

Hi Imaram, updates rarely cause problems. Rather, the problems are pre-existing and the update exacerbates them.
It sounds like you are completely backed up. I'd suggest zeroing out the disk with the bad sectors and re-installing and see if they return. If they do, you'll need to replace the disk. I'd do a zero out on the other disk also even though it is not reporting bad sectors yet.
Then, you can clone everyting back. I'd suggest trying SuperDuper this time.
-mj
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