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palle - Jul 22, 2005 - 5:25 pm
Hello
I´ve got a iMac flatpanel with 512mB Ram.
I should restart with macOSX and the electricity suddenly went. After this it was impossible to boot with anything. No spinning gear.
I b tried all different shortcomands trying to reset and also pressed the PMU.
In desperation I bought Drive Genius and that one booted. I repaired. I rebuild. But it was not possible to boot with anything except Drive Genius.
I read in the manual that I could Initialize and get a brand new hard drive as from the factory and I thougt that was good so I could have a clean install of OSX.
Know as before Only Drive Genius can boot.
I wonder what i could do now.
Can I do something with firewire or with my iMac G3 with macOS 9.2 but no firewire terminal thogh info inside says firewire is enabled.
Thankfull for any kind of answer.
I´ve got a iMac flatpanel with 512mB Ram.
I should restart with macOSX and the electricity suddenly went. After this it was impossible to boot with anything. No spinning gear.
I b tried all different shortcomands trying to reset and also pressed the PMU.
In desperation I bought Drive Genius and that one booted. I repaired. I rebuild. But it was not possible to boot with anything except Drive Genius.
I read in the manual that I could Initialize and get a brand new hard drive as from the factory and I thougt that was good so I could have a clean install of OSX.
Know as before Only Drive Genius can boot.
I wonder what i could do now.
Can I do something with firewire or with my iMac G3 with macOS 9.2 but no firewire terminal thogh info inside says firewire is enabled.
Thankfull for any kind of answer.
earthsaver - Jul 22, 2005 - 6:42 pm
Have you tried booting from your Mac OS X CD/DVD to reinstall OS X on the new (or the old) hard disk?
- Ben
- Ben
palle - Jul 24, 2005 - 8:45 am
Yes I have . I have also a 9.1 boot CD. But nothing boots. Pressinging Alt at startup gives me no choices whatever CD I put in (except Drive Genius). I had 10.3.8 before.
Cmd+S gives no responce but Cmd+alt+O+F does.
Paul
Cmd+S gives no responce but Cmd+alt+O+F does.
Paul
palle - Jul 24, 2005 - 4:45 pm
Yes I have . I have also a 9.1 boot CD. But nothing boots. Pressinging Alt at startup gives me no choices whatever CD I put in (except Drive Genius). I had 10.3.8 before.
Cmd+S gives no responce but Cmd+alt+O+F does.
Paul
Cmd+S gives no responce but Cmd+alt+O+F does.
Paul
bobw - Jul 26, 2005 - 11:30 am
Paul
Try booting off a System disk while holding the C key down.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support
Try booting off a System disk while holding the C key down.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support
palle - Jul 26, 2005 - 5:50 pm
Well I´ve tryed that for a couple of times. But now everything is working to my wounderos eyes.
How?
I forgot my DVD install Tiger inside LaCie and I had unplugged the 220Volt for Mac for about 24 hours and when I started to test if Mac would start the DVD just mounted? Why now, because I tried it before and Drive Genius said it was dedicated to their CD?
I´m very happy but I still don´t understand how Mac could resist booting for over a week.
How?
I forgot my DVD install Tiger inside LaCie and I had unplugged the 220Volt for Mac for about 24 hours and when I started to test if Mac would start the DVD just mounted? Why now, because I tried it before and Drive Genius said it was dedicated to their CD?
I´m very happy but I still don´t understand how Mac could resist booting for over a week.
bobw - Jul 27, 2005 - 1:19 pm
Paul
I wish I could explain that to you.
Maybe the power supp;ly over heating, etc. Or a little gremlin inside the machine
Hopefully, it'll continue working ok.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support
I wish I could explain that to you.
Maybe the power supp;ly over heating, etc. Or a little gremlin inside the machine
Hopefully, it'll continue working ok.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support
palle - Jul 28, 2005 - 6:27 am
Hej
I was away for 3 days and while I was away I dismounted the electric connection and forgot the DVD with OSX inside the extern DVD-player. When I came home I plugged the computer and oops it mounted to the DVD MacOSX. But there were no hard drive to install it on so I went to diskutilitis and made a partition and told on what partition it should install on.
Everything is just great. Thank you Bob for your help.
Paul
I was away for 3 days and while I was away I dismounted the electric connection and forgot the DVD with OSX inside the extern DVD-player. When I came home I plugged the computer and oops it mounted to the DVD MacOSX. But there were no hard drive to install it on so I went to diskutilitis and made a partition and told on what partition it should install on.
Everything is just great. Thank you Bob for your help.
Paul
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