Don't have system discs for G4 Powerbook

Is there a way I can create a bootable disc for a G4 Powerbook for free? I inherited it and don't have the system discs and the hard drive has failed and I need to try to boot it from another disc and grab a few files if possible or see what I can recover.

Is there a way I can create a bootable disc for a G4 Powerbook for free?
Not from scratch, no. If you had cloned it to an external firewire drive before you had the problems then you could have created a bootable external drive from which to start the computer. If the hard drive has failed then it's too late to do that now. Similarly, you could have tried [BootCD|http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7957] with Panther, but too late since it needs something from which to work.
To what extent has this "failed?" Does it boot to a grey screen, or do nothing at all? If it will get to a grey screen then the drive isn't dead but probably the directory is corrupt. Your options then are to try fsk, invest in Diskwarrior to try and repair the directory, or invest in a data rescue program to try and recover files. It is possible to run fsk from the Darwin screen (black screen with text) if it will at least boot that far. fsk won't fix much but it is worth a try and is free.
[Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214]
[Post by japamac about using fsk|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1649143&tstart=0]

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