My G5 recently began to act strange. I could no longer print ton any printer. all of my Adobe software would crash on startup as did Safari. tried to reload the printer software and was denied as I was no longer recognized as the administrator. any fixes?

my G5 recently began to act strange. I could no longer print to any printer and all of my Adobe software and Safari would crash on startup. attempted to re-install my printer software, but was denied as the computer no longer recognized me as the administrator even though i am the only account on the computer. Performed a system install (w/ bakup of previous), this seemed to work for about two days and the problem has returned with other software (Excel) crashing on startup. does anyone have any suggestions? do i need to erase the harddrive and start over?

I suggest you backup you important data!
I suspect the harddrive is going bad.
Run disk utility. verify disk & verify permissions.
Run hardware diagnostics.
I not sure of a good way of telling if the harddrive is going bad. There is software to test harddrive. Don't know of free stuff for mac.
Considerng that the hd is 7 plus years old this isn't a surprise.
Suggest replacing hd.
If your not up to that, get an external hd.
You need an external Firewire drive to boot a PowerPC Mac computer [ a few G5's will boot from USB ].
I recommend you do a google search on any external harddrive you are looking at.
I bought a low cost external drive enclosure. When I started having trouble with it, I did a google search and found a lot of complaints about the drive enclosure. I ended up buying a new drive enclosure. On my second go around, I decided to buy a drive enclosure with a good history of working with Macs. The chip set seems to be the key ingredient. The Oxford line of chips seems to be good. I got the Oxford 911.
Has everything interface:
FireWire 800/400 + USB2, + eSATA 'Quad Interface'
save a little money interface:
FireWire 400 + USB 2.0
This web page lists both external harddrive types. You may need to scroll to the right to see both.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB

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