What to do? (Spinning Curser, Failing Finder, Disappearing Drive)
I loaded the 10.4.7 update without running the disk utility beforehand. I know...I know....BIG MISTAKE.
I've had the problem of the finder working for about two minutes and then spinning for eternity afterwards. I ran the disk utility from the dvd. It found a problem with the master hard drive and fixed it.
However, I still have the problem with the finder. Everything locks up within 2 minutes. In addition, sometimes my partitioned 400 GB internal drive will mount on the desktop and sometimes it won't.
I have done just about everything (emptied user and system cache & preferences, reloaded Tiger-without zeroing out the data, zapped the PRAM, started up in safe mode to use the disk utility and started up from the cdrom to use disk utility), but everything still locks up. When I have had enough time to run the disk utility, it verifies the master hard drive (with OS on it) and has no priviledge repairs to make.
Before I try zeroing out all the data on the 80 GB master drive, I would like to get some opinions.
Here's my set up: Dual 800 MHz G4. Master-80 GB Slave1-160 GB Slave2-400GB. PCI Card to allow me to use more than 120 GB on the 160 & 400 GB drives. Several external drives--all now unplugged and off. New Dual Layered Internal Superdrive. 512 MB and 256MB of memory (I think these are the right numbers, but close enough.)
I have read the posts and seen several of my problems separately, but not all together. I have tried the suggestions offered, but am still having major problems.
PLEASE HELP!!!!
You're welcome. Sorry about the drive.
For recovery your best bet is Prosoft Data Rescue. There is a free trial to see if it can recover what you need.
Also, a service that has been recommended but I cannot personally endorse is DriveSavers.
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