Software Update corrupted my personal files

On my G4 at home, I have 3 hard drives each with 2 partitions. On one drive, I have 10.4.10, another has 10.3.9, and the third (original) has 10.1.8 and OS 9.2.2. On July 22, my 10.4 system was getting slow, so I booted into the 10.3.9 system (which hadn't been used since it was last de-fragmented several months ago) to de-fragment the disk. Before I could do that, Software Update announced that there were 4 updates: iTunes and 3 security updates. iTunes and 2 of the 3 security updates downloaded, but the third one got a red button & said it could not be installed on this machine. I then hit the (required) restart button. The machine crashed hard & wouldn't re-boot even in OS-9 on any disk, & the DVD drive failed also. I finally got it to run the UNIX fsck program under Single User mode, then it re-started on 10.3.9. To my chagrin, most of my personal files stored on one of the non-bootable partitions & backed up to another non-bootable partition) were corrupted irrevocably. Anybody else ever heard of a problem like this?
Message was edited by: Starman35

Starman35:
Whatever the cause of the meltdown, you have just demonstrated the argument against backing up on the same HDD on which you are storing the data you are backing up. If the HDD fails or crashes, so does your backup.
As to why this happened it is difficult to say. What was the third update that could not be downloaded? The download, installation and optimization go all the way before you restarted, or did you restart midway through the process?
Good luck.
cornelius

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