Broken Powerbook G4 ?

Hi, I have a powerbook G4 that is around a year old. It is acting really funny right now. I turn it on, surf the net and whatnot for 10-15 minutes then the spinning color wheel comes on and I can't do anything, not even shut down any of the programs that I have up. I have to manually restart. But get this, when I restart it will sometimes stall on the white apple loadup screen and never go through, or more commonly, it will just be a white screen with no apple logo. I already ran disk warrior but to no avail. What's the deal ? Is my harddrive fried ?

thanks

<<< Is my harddrive fried ?>>>

Frying. Back up all your work. Now is good.

What did Disk Warrior say?

Koz

He isn't coming back, is he?

Koz

I dont think he's coming back. Disk Warrior said there were 4% fragmented files and there was some RED text which I should have read but didn't. I can try rerunning it. How do I turn the laptop into a firewire drive ? I was thinking about mounting it to my g5 desktop to save files, and is it difficult to change these hard drives or will I need to take it to Apple?

thanks Koz

Hold "T" while you're booting. That will make the laptop a "Target" drive.

Koz

" I was thinking about mounting it to my g5 desktop to save files, and is it difficult to change these hard drives or will I need to take it to Apple?"

It's hard, I'd send it in You might try

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At least in Apple's Disk Utility. My daughter just had her ibook act erratically and when I ran Disk Utility the disk name was in red. The status (small text at the bottom of the screen) indicated the S.M.A.R.T. status as "failing." SMART is the failure sensing technolgy they build into many disk drives today - the drive itself is reporting a problem. The ibook is at Apple for an in-warranty drive swap.