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| Hard Drive Problem in PM6500/250 - "Internal error has occurred" |
Posted by: Elfen on 2015-07-17 09:39:26
Today I pulled out my 6500/250 along with my Q950 from storage, I thought it was a 9600. Shame on me.
The logic board is covered in dust do I'll vacuum it later today. But it boots. PRAM Battery is dead so I need to find one of those pig-tailed square ones that is velcro'd to the logic board. But during the boot, it went through Disk Fix and gave an error "An internal error has occurred." But it eventually made it to desktop. I went through Disk Fix on the desktop, it gave 3 Logical Directory Block errors and tried to fix it. It couldn't, giving an error window "An Internal Error has occurred."
It has OS 8.6 has it's system. But I could not find the original 8.6 CD for it. I did find an 8.5 CD for the G3 iMac and got it to boot that. Ran Disk Fix again and still the same problem - tries to fix the logical directory block errors and then throws up the error message "An Internal Error has occurred."
There is no error code in any of the attempts of repair.
Don't know about the RAM but it fully loaded with the Mac TV and other Audio/Video goodies, and an Ethernet card in the Comm. Port on the board.
Other than the error, it seems to be running fine. Apps run OK and I can load and save files. I would prefer to fix it than to format it and install a new system on it as it has a lot of software in it. Furthermore I do not have the install CD for it in the first place. Though the 8.5 iMac CD boots it, I doubt it will install on it.
Any ideas?
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2015-07-17 13:58:14
You could try copying everything to an external, formatting, then copying it back
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Posted by: Elfen on 2015-07-17 21:13:55
As easy as that sounds, the drive inside the 6500 is a 8GB and the biggest external I have is 2gb.
Time to look for Stuffit that works on OS8
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Posted by: sstaylor on 2015-07-18 11:54:43
If you can dig it up, Disk Warrior has always been my go-to tool for disk repair. Unfortunately, it's expensive, and not available at the garden.
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Posted by: Elfen on 2015-07-18 12:19:39
I have Disk Warrior for OSX 10.4. They made an older version for OS8? Would it boot on a PM6500?
I do have Norton but it is for System 7. Using it on OS8 with HS+ would probably scramble the directories. I'm not into unscrambling eggs.
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Posted by: sstaylor on 2015-07-18 13:40:05
DiskWarrior 2, 3, or 4 should boot a PM6500. I think DW2 boots up 9.1 or thereabouts. DW4 boots some version of OSX, but is good for (some?) Powermacs too.
And yeah, be careful of Norton. It was awesome before diskwarrior came out and we learned better.
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