11-30-2007, 05:33 PM
It's been so long since I have had problems like this I am a bit fuzzy on how to proceed.
MDD 1.25, OS 10.3.9, 4 i8nternal and two external drives.
My mac froze last night-- frozen cursor, screen, no acceptance of KB input; I did a hard shutdown (holding power button) and restarted-- had another partial freeze (browser locked up with spinning beachball and it progressed to interface lockup-- cmd/option/esc without effect).
Restarted and hung at initial gray screen.
Restarted with option key and chose a different volume. Ran Disk Utility on main volume but froze almost immediately upon "repair disk".
Turned on external FW chain, restarted from a different volume, ejected all but main hard drive once up, ran disk utility, repaired permissions on main drive once, doing it again . . .
Will try to verify/repair the drive again next. Any suggestions on what to do differently?
Thx.
MDD 1.25, OS 10.3.9, 4 i8nternal and two external drives.
My mac froze last night-- frozen cursor, screen, no acceptance of KB input; I did a hard shutdown (holding power button) and restarted-- had another partial freeze (browser locked up with spinning beachball and it progressed to interface lockup-- cmd/option/esc without effect).
Restarted and hung at initial gray screen.
Restarted with option key and chose a different volume. Ran Disk Utility on main volume but froze almost immediately upon "repair disk".
Turned on external FW chain, restarted from a different volume, ejected all but main hard drive once up, ran disk utility, repaired permissions on main drive once, doing it again . . .
Will try to verify/repair the drive again next. Any suggestions on what to do differently?
Thx.