Booting/HD issues

[dukedinger]

Hi everyone,

Here's my specs fyi:
Powerbook G4 1.33Mhz (PowerPC)
1.5Gb Ram
Running OSX tiger 10.4 (or at least trying to!)

I write fearing the worst... I think my HD may be dead, but I'm not sure.

I ran into some trouble about a week ago. Apps started closing - so I thought I'd give it a reboot - didn't happen. Wouldn't boot.

I ran disk util to try and repair disk. I could see the HD. It was mounted but received error messages about overlapping something. Can't remember, was a while ago now.

Anyhow, I conceeded that a fresh install was my only option, so I bought a new external hard disk to back up my files and reinstall OSX.

That all went fine. Backed up. Reinstalled. However, as I went along reinstalling my apps, I ran disk utils (disk warrior) & techtools to try and keep the file structures on my Powerbook HD nice and tidy. Here's where shit hit the fan. Disk warrior told me that my hard disk was to corrupt to be serviced. Techtools at least had a go. It performed maintainence and I replaced a file structure.

& that was the end of it. Now the HD won't mount. Here's my infor from disk util:
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Name : Macintosh HD
Type : Volume

Disk Identifier : disk0s3
Mount Point : Not mounted
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : ATA
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : pci2/ata-6@D/@0:3
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 0DCE6AD2-BCD8-3A2D-AC5B-35689A276023
Capacity : 74.4 GB (79,892,103,168 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : No
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 3
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Any ideas as to what is going on... Did I not format the hard drive properly when I reinstalled or is it as I fear... my hd is beyond repair?

Thoughts? Comments? HELP needed asap - I'm mid exams and need my my mac running and my docs back that I deleted off the external hard drive because I copied them to my Mac PB hd. It's not accessable anymore.

Many Thanks