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eppur_se_muova

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6. Yeah, that's not good. Back up everything you can.

Reply to marzipanni (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 16, 2016, 10:22 PM

Apr 2016

If you have an external (USB, FireWire, etc.) case you might try moving the disk to there and running Disk Tools again. Surprisingly, some disk problems on older Macs (older than G5, IIRC) magically disappeared when the internal HD was disconnected, then reconnected. Happened to me with an old ... um ... PowerBook, I think, and one desktop of the "Beige" generaton. Of course, that's not much better than saying "maybe you'll get lucky", but it *might* be worth trying.

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We have a G5 mac from 2008 (?) that starts and has a normal desktop [View all] marzipanni Apr 2016 OP

A couple of thoughts PJMcK Apr 2016 #1

I have tried to start with a OSX (Leopard) disk which is the 10.5 series marzipanni Apr 2016 #4

Try this site PJMcK Apr 2016 #2

The HD is working well enough to boot up ... sounds more like some system files corrupted. eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #3

It gets stuck partway through verify disk, then the ball spins. marzipanni Apr 2016 #5

Yeah, that's not good. Back up everything you can. eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #6