Hello. A very scary thing happened to me last night! My internal maxtor drive (master drive) 60Gb 3 partitions just died last night without any reason! This what I did: I re-started my computer (G4, 733, last model before quicksilver) in os9.2 to work on a notation in Finale (notation program, not at all hard disk intense!). After I finished a new (huge!) piece, I re started in os 10.2 to do backups and email etc. No crash, no errors, nothing! But my computer would simply give me the question mark. By that time i already realized it was a serious hard drive error, cause I have 3 partitions (one 10.2, one 9.2 and one data) and my mac couldn't find obvioulsy any system anymore on that drive. the next step I did, was to put my 10.2 install cd in in order to re-install the system without replacing the old system. All the drives (the 3 partitions of my maxtor and the second (slave-)drive WD120Gb), showed up in the install destination window. I figured: wait, the maxtor drive still shows up so let me restart again, maybe the problem is gone. But no, it wasn't, again the question mark! I again started up from the 10.2 install cd and chose the os10.2 partition (which showed up again) as a destination and chose to install a second system (not initialize!) The installation would begin but stop after 10 sec with an error just giving me the option to restart. On the next attemp to install the system again, suddenly the maxtor drive wouldn't show up anymore, only my WD 120BG slave drive! I am desperate now!. I read the topic about Matthew Taylor's firewire drive that failed and tried the command+option OF shortcut and the reset command as discribed by Rick from macgurus.com but no results! Please is there anything I can do. I have just finnished a huge BigBand arrangement that is saved on the os9.2 partition and I didn't have the chance to back it up. A month hard work would be gone! Any advice is appreciated! Thanks! PS: I did install now a new system on my slave drive in order to start-up mu computer! in case that helps.

See if DiskWarrior can see and/or fix it. p

Same thing happened to me! 40 GIG Maxtor DiamondMax Pro. What can you do?

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