Wont Finish Booting - Please Help me Help my Best Friend!
My Powerbook G4 is 3 1/2 years old... His name is Rely, yes, short for Reliable, and if you can help me I won't ever swear at him again...
Computer started making funny noises when I was on the net... Don't ask me why, but I thought it was itunes' fault... anyway, the spinning lollipop came on and off and every now and again I was able to quickly retreive the Force Quit option... I tried to Force Quit out of itunes, but the lollipop kept taking over and the process went nowhere... I hate to do it, but I held down the power key to turn the computer off... I did 5 circles around the kitchen table and then came back to see if I could turn it back on.
I turned it back on and the Apple made that ding noise, I got the Apple icon, and then the wheel just spun and spun and spun... I turned it off again with the power button and tried to boot him up again... Same thing, ding came up, Apple showed up, timer spun around and around... I tried this maybe three times...
Note to reference.... Power supply was not out, it was in the middle of charging up... currently the computer is plugged in and the power light is orange... which I am hoping it means it is still getting power to the battery and recharging...
Anyway... I play on the internet for a living, and as you can imagine I need my Rely back! It is a good thing I recently purchased a hard drive and backed up all the goodies... You know, I started to notice little things like this here and there....
Please note that I bought this computer because it just works... period. I am not very technical, but I can follow direction well, so please be as basic as possible...
Thank you for your time and expertise!
Hi Alexandra,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
From what you describe, it sounds like it might be a dying/dead hard drive. Is your external HD FireWire? Did you clone your PB's HD to it? If so, try booting from the external HD by holding down the option key, then selecting it at the initial window.
If you don't have a bootable ext. HD, try booting from the install disc and run Repair Disk: Boot from install disc (insert disc>restart>immediately hold down c key and keep holding it until you see “Preparing Installation”)>at first screen go to Installer Menu>open Disk Utility>select your HD in the panel on the left side>click Repair Disk at bottom of main window. Run this at least twice, and keep running it until it says “appears ok” twice in a row. If that doesn’t happen, you may need a stronger utility such as DiskWarrior or if the directory is damaged beyond repair, you may need to reinstall the OS, or you may have a damaged HD (repair utilities can only repair the directory structure, not the HD itself).
Let me know what happens and we can go from there.
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