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Tag Archives: boot_failure
My laptop is back!
Woo hoo! SantaDHL came by yesterday and I got my PowerBook G4 back from Apple! In fact, I’m posting from it right now. I’m a bit busy preparing for Christmas to spend much time on recovering all my files, settings, … Continue reading
The continuing PowerBook saga
My laptop has been dead for nearly 3 months! Why does every step of this process seem to trip me up? Continue reading
DiskWarrior wasn’t able to help me
After nearly 7 weeks, I’m giving up hope that DiskWarrior can recover my drive’s data. Continue reading
DiskWarrior finally completed “step 5”
Sometime Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, DiskWarrior finally completed “Step 5: Locating directory data…” which gives an elapsed time of 200-216 hours or almost 9 days! It’s currently working on “Step 6: Overlapped files detected: 146” which translates to quite a bit … Continue reading
Still rebuilding my laptop disk
In an earlier post/comment I started running DiskWarrior in an attempt to recover my laptop’s failed harddrive. Still running after 47 hours, but no sign of progress (or failure) yet…
PowerBook boot problem revisited
Second attempt at recovering boot drive contents with DiskWarrior Continue reading
PowerBook boot failure
My PowerBook won’t boot. How to boot single-user for diagnostics. Attempting repair with DiskWarrior. Continue reading