G5 PowerMac won't boot
My PowerMac (G5, 1st gen, dual 2.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Tiger) is not booting, gives me the folder with the question mark alternating with the folder with the Finder logo on it.
Booted off the Tiger install disk to run disk utility on my main hard drive and got the following error message
- Invalid B tree node size
- Volume check failed
- Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
- 1 HFS Volume Checked
- 1 volumed could not be repaired because of error
So does this mean the hard drive has failed, or would it be salvageable with Disk Warrior?
Thanks for any help!
Booted off the Tiger install disk to run disk utility on my main hard drive and got the following error message
- Invalid B tree node size
- Volume check failed
- Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
- 1 HFS Volume Checked
- 1 volumed could not be repaired because of error
So does this mean the hard drive has failed, or would it be salvageable with Disk Warrior?
Thanks for any help!
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My question at this point is, can I swap the A drive into the B position and try to recover data from it after installing the new drive? I do have a second drive in the B position now. Is there any problem swapping drives around like this? My current B drive is just used for video, so I could re-rip videotapes if necessary.
Related question: Am I correct in my understanding of .Mac Backup program that it will only backup for 1 user (owner of .Mac account)? I have four users on this PowerMac and can't get the installed Backup program to work for the other three users.
Thanks!
Seems to me like the most straight forward way would be what I suggested above:
- take out original boot (A) drive
- install Tiger on new A drive
- take out B drive, install original A drive in B slot
- recover files
- take out original A drive, replace with original B drive
- restore anything else from (3 weeks old) backup firewire drive to new A drive
Will this work? Any complications to be aware of?