DiskWarrior

DiskWarrior 2 is for OS 9 only. If you formated the second drive with OS X, it will not be recognized in OS 9. to correct this, use the OS 9 CD and go to Utilities>Drive setup. Select the second drive and ! don't format it! go to the menu to update drivers. After a restart in OS 9, you should 'see' the drive.

Yeah holding option forces to find System folders. Holding x forces to boot into X, but clearly you have a corrupt drive. Did you try Diskwarrior? It could fix your problem.

Reset the PRAM. Oh yeah I forgot about running the Disk Utilities like Norton and Diskwarrior like ElDiabloConCaca said. ...

hand, you need to purchase OS X separately. You will need an OS X disk to get this machine going again, unless you can run Norton Disk Doctor or Diskwarrior or something like that on the drive and repair it. ...

hardware test DVD that it came with boots just fine, but I can't get either of my Diskwarrior or TechTool Deluxe CDs to boot. I have not got any other bootable CDs, but I would like to run one of the utilities. ...

Booting from a DiskWarrior CD could take as long as 4 minutes, so keep holding the C key down until it boots. ...

Wait so I hold the "c" key while im shutting down or while I'm starting up. Holding down the "c" button while that white apple screen the whole time is kind of annoying. =\

Could a .smi or installer disk image be in the Login Items in your System Preferences? I had that happen on my wife's computer once, with similar results. EDIT: And check out DiskWarrior. It's a "must-have" tool for directory problems.

With the Diskwarrior CD in your CD drive, restart your computer, while holding down the "C" key. This will force the computer to boot from the CD. ...

this is pretty common when i've selected os 9 as a startup and then it crashes. if starting with option doesn't do the trick, then chances are that booting off any cd that has a startup disk control panel and allows you to reselect your os x will solve the booting into x problem. i've also found that simply hitting the restart button again (might even need to be done a few...