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KauaiPhotos

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Mar 31, 2012
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i have an older powermac g5 running OSX 10.5.8 with two volumes. volume 1 will not boot past blue screen. i can however boot up from second volume by making it my start-up disk, but am unable to access files (which i desperately need!) from volume 1. i "see" them there, but the applications will not open--some try, then crash.

i have run disk utilities, reset pram, and a ton of other things and all check out okay, yet still stuck at the blue screen when i try to boot as normal.

i do not have the install disks, and the optical dvd drive stopped reading disks a few months ago. (yay)

any help would be appreciated... PLEASE!!!
 

Goftrey

macrumors 68000
May 20, 2011
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Wales, UK
Could be either a dying hard drive or dodgy hard drive cables. One of the bays on my G5 is deemed useless at the moment as the hard drive cables are knackered.
 

KauaiPhotos

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Original poster
Mar 31, 2012
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thanks for the replies... wondering if using the second hhd is going to cause further "damage"...just having it running.

i can access the files i need (photos) but am unable to connect an external hard drive to back up. is there a way to get my needed programs from volume one?

curious why disk utility would say the volume i'm having trouble with is "okay" if it's dying.
 
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