My 15" 1.5ghz Powerbook G4 decided to not shut down the other night, so I did a force quit. The next morning when I tried to start it, it hung on the start up screen with the spinning wheel. I force quit again and ran Applejack. During AJ's disk repair, a "disk0s5 I/O error" was reported several times, so when i had the option, I stopped AJ and rebooted. Now, my book hangs at the apple start up screen, but there is no spinning wheel. I tried to get back into applejack, but single user mode is now disabled. I've reset PRAM, and PMU. I can get to the startup manager, as well as starting from a bootable disk. I've started it in target disk mode, and while the HD doesn't show up on the second computer, the disk in the dvd drive does. I've booted from the os x install dvd (Tiger) and run disk utility. The drives show up, and I can repair permissions, but I cannot repair the disk. Disk utility reports a failure on exit, with an "Invalid Key Length" error. S.M.A.R.T. status is good. I've run Diskwarrior, but receive "directory was too severely damaged". Well, I should clarify a bit here- I have 4 partitions on this drive, and Diskwarrior can fix the directory on 2 of the partitions. One that is loaded with audio samples, and one that is just junk (movies, archives, etc.). The other 2 contain the start up disk and the user directories. Thankfully, through DW's preview of the reconstructed directory, I was able to pull off my work files. DW's hardware test says that the HD itself is functioning properly too.
I am stuck here. A month ago, my computer lost the ability to function off battery. I could put it to sleep just fine without being connected to the power adapter, as well as starting up. As soon as I logged into a profile, it'd die. If I powered up, logged in, then unplugged it, I could run the battery down all the way, as long as I did nothing on the computer. Using coconutBattery, I could see the battery was recognized, and received charge, and that the capacity of the battery was at about half of original capacity.
Do these symptoms add up to anything? Any solution?
I am stuck here. A month ago, my computer lost the ability to function off battery. I could put it to sleep just fine without being connected to the power adapter, as well as starting up. As soon as I logged into a profile, it'd die. If I powered up, logged in, then unplugged it, I could run the battery down all the way, as long as I did nothing on the computer. Using coconutBattery, I could see the battery was recognized, and received charge, and that the capacity of the battery was at about half of original capacity.
Do these symptoms add up to anything? Any solution?