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Yea, the computer is long gone. I never did get it working so well and was without a computer for like 6 months. It's crazy how dependent I was on a computer. But now I'm back with a mac book pro and nothing could be better. Thanks so much for all of the help and sorry I didn't respond sooner...

help!!!!!!!! i am trying to boot up my computer and instead of a regular login option, it just says other and then gives me the option to put in my name and password. neither of the logins are working, so i can't even get into the computer to back it up!!!!!!!! asjfhadfns g

okay i am backing up my harddrive and am going to reinstall mac os 10.24. wish me goodluck

ha yea i could never leave mac, i was only speaking out of anger cry cry cry. so i've got a hold a of a friends mac firewire drive and am planning to reload the os. can i back up applications by moving the entire folder or will it not work upon installation? also, if it is a failing drive...

oh and diskutil repairPermissions / did not work. possibly because i am running 10.2.8?

in single user mode i was never able to get by the first step fsck -yf. mount -uaw did nothing. i deleted all the system.log."".gz but was never able to clear the system.log however when i ran fsck and disk utility, the error message about the system log did not show up. for disk utility disk...

can i do this in single user mode using rm or what not or does it have to be in the fire wire mode. and sorry for my confusion, but i need another computer for firewire mode, correct? thanks so much, matthew

... and even after running cache out x and deleting all the old system files etc. i am still getting the same error logs running fsck and disk utility. is it safe to manually alter the system.log file? i guess i wouldn't even be able to save ...

i've got a 40 gb harddrive and apparently my computer is telling me that i have about 16 or so free gigs. i try to run a very minimal machine. i am not sure how reliable this is though becuase i am using the free space option reading in the folder, if that makes any sense. by fake g4 i just mean...

thanks everyone for your advice. however, i ran both fsck in single user mode and first aid disk utility disk repair from the system installation disc and both methods gave me this error "incorrect block count for file system.log (it should be 165 instead of 166)" both repair methods...

sorry for the melo-dramatic title, but ... just three days ago i was telling my friend to go with cubase and a mac because of how nice compatibility with drivers is etc etc etc and how i use my cheap little emac running photoshop and flash without much lag and how cool wire tap and draw bot are...