Well, my computer seemed to working fine after the PRAM battery went, I replaced it, reset the circuit at the CUDA button (thanks to advice I found here). All seemed fine, except that the menu bar never finished loading. I understand this is a function of SystemUI, but I do not know what to do about it. I read a forum that said to force quit it from Activity Monitor, which I did. At this point, the OS locked up, so I had to force shut down and restart at the power button. When restarting, at the login screen, the progress bar reaches right to the end, but never went beyond that. I tried to reinstall the OS (archive and install), which seemed to start working, but then reached an undefined error and told me to restart and try again. After restarting, the HD would not mount to when trying to run the installer. Even from the Startup Disk, the OS9 and OSX startup disks (on the HD) do not show up. I tried restarting from the Norton disk to run the utility there, and it stops with an error. In Norton's disk image viewer, I can though see the HD and all the files on it. From Disk Utility, I can see the HD and the partition, but it is greyed out, and will not mount. When I go to the First Aid tab and run Check Disk or Repair, I get Invalid Key Length about a billion times.
Please help.
I read on another forum to use Disk Warrior, but if I could get out of this cheaper than $100 or if someone has the .dmg, or if there is some other utility or anything, that would be great.
My equipment is a G4 PowerMac QuickSilver dual 1 Ghz with 1.5 GB RAM.
Thanks,
a (very) low budgeted mac user
vinnyatgenesisstudiosdotcom
Please help.
I read on another forum to use Disk Warrior, but if I could get out of this cheaper than $100 or if someone has the .dmg, or if there is some other utility or anything, that would be great.
My equipment is a G4 PowerMac QuickSilver dual 1 Ghz with 1.5 GB RAM.
Thanks,
a (very) low budgeted mac user
vinnyatgenesisstudiosdotcom