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Boot with an OS install disk in drive, hold down the C key to force a boot from the disk. Find the utility Disk Utility and look to see if your hard disk appears. If it does, select it an Repair the disk. Repair permissions too if that is separate. See if this helps you reboot. If you ever get...

I think really no "drivers" are used (and thus needed). I installed a Belkin USB adaptor on a G4 tower and I am almost certain I did not used any kind of driver software. I think once connected and powered up the device will show up in the Network Preferences (click on the OSX system preferences...

From apple: This articles describes what to do if You Can't Eject a CD or DVD, or Open the Drive Tray. Important: Make sure the disc is not in use. Quit all applications that are using files on the disc. 1. Place the computer in sleep mode. 2. Press the Media Eject key at the...

Any chance that Sony has put some Digital Rights limitations on the DVD? Otherwise you could record content and make copies to sell. So you would have to go through the standard hack and find some share ware software to open the Sony DVD, make a new copy of the contents w/o the restrictions and...

I obtained above from apple.com/support. Maybe you have one of the special situations. So start your laptop up first holding down the T key, then plug in the firewire cable.

When connecting one Macintosh computer to another using FireWire Target Disk Mode, some computers may not appear until the FireWire cable is disconnected and connected again. Symptom The computer in FireWire Target Disk Mode (the "target") does not appear on the host computer. Products...

From apple for troubleshooting, discusses fsck. The Terminal application in your Applications/Utility folder opens the Unix terminal window. Easy to get at and is sometimes helpful in troubleshooting. Using Disk Utility and fsck to resolve startup issues or perform disk maintenance If your...

Also - repair permissions with Disk Utility: If you have problems with a disk or volume, use Disk Utility to test and repair it. You can also verify and repair permissions on a Mac OS X startup disk. Occasionally the user permissions associated with files or applications become damaged, which...

Apple support has several files that outline the troubleshooting process: iMac G5: My computer stops responding during startup Several things could make your iMac G5 stop responding as it starts up. Some of the solutions involve reinstalling software on the hard disk or replacing hardware...

Put an operating system Install disk #1 into your CD tray and turn on the computer holding down the "c" key. This should force a boot to the CD and it will boot up. Then find the Disk Utility and repair your hard disk. This might be all you need. But you might need to re-install the operating...

Note the current Startup Disk selection, which is a Mac OS X volume. - it is telling you that you should see an icon of your hard drive that contains your OS X operating system and you should write down its name. If you have other hard disks connected to you computer they will show up as well...

I suppose one could try the Geek Squad at Best Buy. Although they may not see much apple business, it should not take a brain surgeon to replace the hard drive (opening the case is the most difficult thing). If you need a new HD might as well get a larger sized one. BTW to run the fsck all you...

Boot using the OS install disk (hold down the c key during a restart). The use the Disk Utility program to look at your hard disk (in OS X this is called Disk Utility - I forget what it was called in OS 9) . There will be options to verify or repair, you may need both. Hopefully your disk...

Command is an apple OS and keyboard key, it has the apple and four leaf clover on it. I have no idea how to "emulate" with a PC keyboard. Can you go back to preferences so that both X11 and OS X are showing (I think they call this rootless mode)? Just make the X11 window nearly the size of the...

www.unbunto.com I had heard of Knoppix which is also a CD based Linux just last night. I am probably missing the text but I can't see where The Unbuntu site says you can burn to a CD and run off the CD. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html or http://www.knoppix.net/

I agree - I download the system updates unless I know for sure I do not need the software suggested (but this is rare - for example any airport updates I ignore because my iMac does not have airport). My experience has been they are quite stable and really cause no problem.

I think that pane is showing you where your account's information is stored and it is dimmed because you cannot change where this particular account stores this information. For most users this is also the location of all your actual email files. I read that individual mailboxes (the folders for...

Also, Retrospect runs everynight and does an incremental backup to the backed up files. I think the "sync" programs I mentioned also do incremental backups. Your method would give you a single day snapshot of your hard disk.

When I backup I don't backup the system per se, since I have the OS install disks. Presumably if the hard disk dies you would have a new disk and probably people would recommend starting with a new fresh installation of the OS. And so I don't know if multiple OS files on a back hard disk are an...

As a start you can boot from the install disk and use Disk Utility to examine the internal hard drive. Insert disk and book holding the c key down. Since it was working and now not, one possibility is a failing hard disk - and usually the place to start.