White G3 i book (2001 model) booting problem.. Can anyone help please?

Hello,
I have a rather old ibook that freezes on the mac osx start up screen. It appears to be loading then freezes when one sixth of the progress bar is illuminated in blue. I'll be buying a new one soon but have things stored on this one that I'd like to access. Any ideas what I can do? Thanks

you still have the original restore media? have an external firewire drive?
either a) the os is corrupted or b) the drive is failing.
you may be able to hold T on startup. this puts the mac into target disk mode. hook it to another mac via firewire cable & see if it mounts in finder. try & copy the viable / needed files off to the 2nd mac or to an external drive.

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