Corrupt Osx 10.3

[CharlieJ]

I have a imac g5 and when i boot my computer there is a flashing ?
with a folder in the background and the screen is all broken up i think the os is corrupt and i have lost my installation disk so i ordered tiger wil i be able to keep all of my files and folders etc i think i can but i just need confirmation

Thanks in the future,
CJ

 

[Satcomer]

I hope you have appleCare on the new iMac G5. It could be a just a hard drive crash or the logic board could have went. To check for the hard drive crash boot into Single-User mode and run fsck -fy ( -fy for 10.4) and see is it says a hard drive error.