Stuck at startup screen

I have a dual 1.25Mhz Mirror Door G4. Ram is maxed out.
This has actually happened about 4 times so far, but this time I cannot get it to work.
The problem is, when I restart, it will not boot beyond the gray "Apple" screen with the spinning disk at the bottom.
I have run Disk Warrior, Tech Tools and Disk Utility but none will fix the problem, even though Disk Warrior and Tech Tools said that all problems were fixed. I have even tried reloading the operating system (Tiger 10.4)and it says it cannot load it as it has encountered a problem.
I have a lot of needed info on the disk and I'd love to get it running just one more time so I can dump it off to an external drive and then buy a new hard drive.
Can anyone help? Thanks.
Desktop G4 MDD   Mac OS X (10.4)   Ram maxed out, Dual 1.25Mhz

I would not mess with trying to resurrect the hard drive at this time.
Buy a new one. Install your os on the new one. Transfer your user files (import or drag and drop as necessary) to your new installation. The more you mess with the old drive the more chance of it getting beyond recovery. I would not clone the old system either since it is apparently damaged (could be bad blocks on the hard drive which no utility can repair). I wouldn't even do an archive and install. It is probably a waste of time and may not fix everything.
There are some excellent sales on hard drives today. Scroll down to Storage.
http://dealmac.com/
Just my 2 cents

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