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    BIG problem

    Looks like I'll have to replace the hard drive then :(. The MacBook shuts off fine when I hold the power button, and I was holding only c. Tried it enough times now to know it's not gonna work.
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    BIG problem

    I did what you said, after the grey screen the command line came up yet again. I got the following error; "SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00". That message appeared 9 times, followed by the original error I had in my first post, and then a load of others, which I...
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    BIG problem

    It's not letting me do that. I'm typing with one hand whilst holding down c on the laptop with my other! It's been on the grey screen (the start up screen with the grey apple) for a few minutes now! Edit: I did what you said, after the grey screen the command line came up yet again. I got the...
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    BIG problem

    Sorry to bump, but this is an urgent problem! Another thing; when I enter 'exit' or 'reboot' to try and get out of the command line, I get a whole list of error messages - at the end of the error messages it says "exited abnormally: Bus error". Is there ANYTHING I can do? There are a lot of...
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    BIG problem

    Hi there, After a series of crashes, forced shut downs and other things, it seems that my MacBook has given up on life. At first when turned on, it would become stuck on the loading page (where it says "starting Mac OS X"), but now it boots up and ends up on a UNIX command line. I can see...
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