Using Apple Restore Disk

Ok the good news is that I have located my original disks that came with my G4. So I went and put the restore disk into the cd drive and it comes up on the screen. Now when I use disk first aid it tells me that I have a node 4 error adn that the hard drive cannot be mounted. I then tried to do a restore but all it gives as an option is the restore disk and the the hard drive. I am now at a new loss! I have a feeling that it is probably something easy and I don't want to pay someone to tell me this! Please any help I can get would be awesome!

Hi, mprestonsoccer -
A node error indicates damage to the disk directory. This Alsoft support article addresses that -
Alsoft - Node error
Such damage is usually not repairable by Disk First Aid. Alsoft's DiskWarrior should be able to repair that damage.
Note - the current versions of DiskWarrior, v. 3.x, boot only to OSX. If your machine is a G4 (AGP) or later model, there is a firmware update, v. 4.2.8, recommended in order to use OSX on the machine; a G4 (PCI) model does not need a firmware update. If your machine needs that update and it has not yet been done, then look on EBay or other places for a copy of Diskwarrior v. 2.x - those versions boot to OS 9.
You can also use Drive Setup to deep-wipe the drive, which should also repair the problem. However, this will erase the drive completely. If there's anything on the drive which you do not want to lose, and which has not been backed up someplace, then you may not want to do this.
Using Drive Setup
A comment on using the Software Restore disk -
That CD can be dangerous to use. Its intended purpose is to revert the contents of the hard drive to the state it was in when originally shipped; this is accomplished by its installer using a disk image of the contents of the hard drive as it was when it left the factory. There is a way to use that disk to preserve the existing contents of the drive while also replacing all that was there originally, but it is very easy to accidentally delete the current contents of the drive.
A safer disk to use, one which has all the repair capability of the Restore disk, is to use the Software Install CD. This disk is intended to be used to install or replace just the operating system plus a few other standard utilities, and by default removes nothing. In addition, by user direction it can be used to make incremental replacements or installs of OS and other software groups. A retail OS 9 Install CD of appropriate version (all retail OS 9 Install CDs have a white label with a large gold 9) can also be used with equal safety.

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