MOUSE FROZEN - CURSOR GONE!!

I have a big problem now with a frozen mouse and disappeared cursor! While in Mac OS 9.2.2, not Classsic, a full verison of 9.2.2, (although version 10.2.8 is also installed), I was just trying to drag and drop about 19 files totalling about 31 GB of data from my old La Cie Firewire external hard drive to my brand new LaCie 250 GB external hard drive. Just prior to this, I had successfully done this same procedure with another old LaCie Firewire external hard drive to this new one. Now I can budge neither the mouse nor the missing cursor, and I hate to restart the computer, (scary!), as both Firewire drives' icons are open, though nothing is processing. If I restart, will I damage the drives or data? Please advise a.s.a.p!! Thanks a lot!!
PowerMac G3 Mac OS 9.2.x 1 GB RAM, 3 internal SCSI drives, 2 external La Cie Firewire drives

Hi, brainbytes -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
First try a software reset (force quit the running app, which includes Finder) - press the key combo Command-Option-Esc. If that works, you may regain control with Finder, at which point do a normal Restart.
If it doesn't work, the machine will stay frozen.
It is okay to do a force restart using the button on the computer - doing so should not damage the firewire drive(s). Firewire drives do not need to be unmounted prior to restarting or shutting down.
However, given that the freeze happened in the midst of a copy process, some damage may occur to the disk's directory, which may then need to be repaired. OS 9's Disk First Aid can not repair a firewire drive; OSX's Disk Utility can. Better would be to use a stronger utility such as Alsoft's DiskWarrior.
Since you have OSX on the machine, do not use Norton Utilities.

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