Volume damaged and i have no backup

Hi,
My ibook was acting up so i reinstalled from the startup disks to "clean out" my ibook. Anyway all of my problems started from there. Software update would hang, i could not open my applications and my password would not work. Last night software update froze when it was optimizing the volume. i manually shut down by pressing the power key. when i went to turn it on this morning it would not load up. i called Applecare and booted to DIsk Utility from the start-up disk. It revealed that a volume could not be repaired. After several attempts to repair the problem applecare decided that i had to erase my volume. My problem is that i have no backup and cannot access my files because my ibook will not start up. The person at apple care suggested that i connect my ibook to my husbands G4 through a firewire and backup my data. He is not to keen with my doing that and he does not have enough memory to spare. Any idea what i can do to backup my data in any other way?

Hi,
I assume the G4 has at least a CD burner if not a DVD burner.
Connect the two with a firewire cable and start the iBook in Firewire target mode. Insert a CD/DVD in the G4s drive and drag your data to it and burn as many discs as necessary to backup your data. Nothing will remain on the G4's drive.
John

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