[kevicoll]

Friends,

I was having a major slow down yesterday on a new g5 imac running tiger 10.4 so I shut everything down and ran diskwarrior 3.03 on all my drives and then the applejack utility. This seemed to work in the past. But when I get to the external drive, diskwarrior froze at the replacing directory stage so after an hour I manually restarted the machine. The drive still appears on the desktop but I couldn't open it. I ran dw again and left it running all night and when I came in this am there was an error message saying I had a hardware problem, run dw again and copy from the preview. Diskwarrior is running again and again seems frozen. Is this normal? At what point should I send the drive to the data recovery folks? Thanks.

Kevin

[ThreeDee912]

No, it doesn't seem normal. Try does the Disk Utility program in the Utilities folder say that the SMART Status is failing? This is another reason why "You should ALWAYS backup your work."

[macguru]

agree with previous poster that is very likelya hard drive failure-confirmable under disk utility in utilities folder which is in applications folder. IF you are under AppleCare it's time to call 1-800-SOS APPL for help. I personally believe in AppleCare for laptops.

[D0C_Hol1d@y]

i've done the same thing before. I had to re-zero the drive to get it to work again. That means erasing it for good. I once had a drive fail smart tests and after re-zeroing it passed. That could have been a fluke but that drive still works today and that was over a year ago.