Fsck this.

[cherry]

My fish died, my car needs the CV shaft replaced, and my computer is beyond messed.

To those of you I owe writing, applications, or email: My apologies, but until I am able to force my personal computer to function for more than a few minutes, you're going to have to hold on to your hats.

elvenjen4: I'm going to try to run a fsck when I get home from work, but I don't know if I can get it to boot up that far -- it's been dying well before it's booted.

It's got what I think is a hardware number on the forced shutdown messages. My preferences are all gone, my bookmarks disappeared, I can't keep programs launched (problems no longer occur solely when charging, but there's something else wrong with the battery: I left it fully charged, and when I went to boot it up it was dry), and I constantly get shutdown messages, even during a boot. Zapping the PRAM doesn't work, and what I thought was my Norton CD turns out to be the OS9 version.

Any ideas?

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Re: Breathe. =)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

10.2.8 for an OS, actually. ::G::

So. I've zapped the pram. I've been attempting to run fsck, but it says it is unable to do anything. Norton has killed a huge number of B-Tree and Volume ... something (Volume Header Blocks?) errors. My mind is blank. I can keep Safari running for a bit, but AIM and IE kill it immediately.

Norton is now erroring out, and refusing to let me do any more repairs. Error 23005.

All help is muchly appreciated.

Re: Breathe. =)

[elvenjen4.livejournal.com]

DOOD! You told me you had 10.1. Whew! I'm so relieved you have 10.2! Then I can link you to a bunch more downloadable Utilities! :) I'll do that tonight, want me to email you or post?

Those errors sound about right... but I don't know any more about Norton repairs. :( I'll ask around a bit more with the knowledge you gave!

Re: Breathe. =)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

My dock has now been reset, and when I try to download one of those programs you linked me to, I am unable. Safari is not able to download -- it says it was unable to create the file. I'm unable to save a text file, either.

As a point of curiousity, search engines kill it, too. Just trying to type something into the search bar crashes Safari.

Re: Breathe. =)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

(I`m really not doing this at work.)

I searched Norton, and it looks like I`m going to have to do a volume recover, like it says http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/num.nsf/14e8ad63a2133be2852569680048a511/d08b50f3ef357863882566b400739dff?OpenDocument&prod=Norton%20Utilities%20for%20Macintosh&ver=6.x&src=sg&pcode=num&svy=&csm=no (my keyboard is messed, and I can`t find the html tags, all apologies).

Problem is, I haven`t been running filesaver, so I`m going to lose a lot of stuff, I think.

Is this an advisable course of actionÉ

(Am also missing the question mark.)

Re: Breathe. =)

[elvenjen4.livejournal.com]

DON'T reformat your harddrive yet. My dad's getting you a CD with other, really really good utilities which will fix your hd w/o losing data. If you can wait and want to save your files, hold on a few days til it gets there.

If you can find ANYone with a firewire port, ask if you can boot your computer in firwire disk mode and transfer some files. You do this by plugging in your two computers (via firewire cable) while yours is still off, and start yours up by holding down the "t" key until you get a big orange firewire symbol floating on the screen. Then the other computer just thinks of yours as an external harddrive.

Re: Breathe. =)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Volume Recover failed to work as well -- yet another error. Can't find anyone with a firewire port, but am attempting to find someone with Disk Warrior.

If I can avoid reformatting my HD, I'd really like to. I'd hate to lose everything.

Re: Breathe. =)

[elvenjen4.livejournal.com]

It's on its way. :) DW's optimizer is best and it won't reformat your disk.