MVoracious
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Hi everyone,
I'm new to Mac. Just got my Mac OSX 10.3 G4 up and going yesterday. Everything was great, and I was installing programs on the Mac when it told me something about not having enough room on my startup disk after I had done some software updates. To amend this, I deleted a bunch of duplicate files, which might have been the cause of my next problem....
It asked me to restart my Mac, which I did, and ever since I haven't been able to get past the grey screen with the Apple Logo and the rotating load clock. I researched what to do, and came upon the fsck function.
I tried that, followed the rule to keep doing it until it told me that the MacHD appears OK. THE PROBLEM: I keep getting ****FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED*** prompt, which based on what I've read I need to change to "Mac Hd appears OK" by repeatedly using the fsck function. But I can't seem to get to the "OK" part, and keep getting ***FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED***.
What i've tried to workaround:
Zap my PRAM
reset my firmware
everything else i've read to do.
Obviously i'm a total novice, so I don't really know what i'm doing, but was hoping someone could help me out.
this is what i keep getting after the fsck function:
**/dev/rdisk0s9
**Checking HFS plus volume
**Checking Extents Overflow file
**Checking catalog file
**Checking Catalog file
**Checking multi-linked files
**Checking Catalog hierarchy
**Checking volume bitmap
**Checking volume information
**Repairing volume
**The volume Macintosh HD was repaired successfully
***THE FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED***
localhost:/ root#
Then when I tried the "verbose" command+v application, the prompt -"Waiting for Auto directory binding"-just keeps coming down the screen, over and over.
I'm totally at my wit's end, and was considering getting the Disk Warrior, but was kind of unsure if that would help, since I can't get past the grey screen if the Disk Warrior would be of any help any way, or if it would be the way to go because it doesn't need to actually get past the "kernel" screen (all this new terminology-whatta learning curve!)
Also, I don't have a MacOS disc handy, because I bought my Mac from work as they were being updated with G5's and were thus formatted through work.
Can anyone give me some pointers? I would really appreciate any help that anyone could give me, because i LOVE my new Mac and the suspense of being shut out from using it is excrutiating...thanks again.
talk soon
MV
I'm new to Mac. Just got my Mac OSX 10.3 G4 up and going yesterday. Everything was great, and I was installing programs on the Mac when it told me something about not having enough room on my startup disk after I had done some software updates. To amend this, I deleted a bunch of duplicate files, which might have been the cause of my next problem....
It asked me to restart my Mac, which I did, and ever since I haven't been able to get past the grey screen with the Apple Logo and the rotating load clock. I researched what to do, and came upon the fsck function.
I tried that, followed the rule to keep doing it until it told me that the MacHD appears OK. THE PROBLEM: I keep getting ****FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED*** prompt, which based on what I've read I need to change to "Mac Hd appears OK" by repeatedly using the fsck function. But I can't seem to get to the "OK" part, and keep getting ***FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED***.
What i've tried to workaround:
Zap my PRAM
reset my firmware
everything else i've read to do.
Obviously i'm a total novice, so I don't really know what i'm doing, but was hoping someone could help me out.
this is what i keep getting after the fsck function:
**/dev/rdisk0s9
**Checking HFS plus volume
**Checking Extents Overflow file
**Checking catalog file
**Checking Catalog file
**Checking multi-linked files
**Checking Catalog hierarchy
**Checking volume bitmap
**Checking volume information
**Repairing volume
**The volume Macintosh HD was repaired successfully
***THE FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED***
localhost:/ root#
Then when I tried the "verbose" command+v application, the prompt -"Waiting for Auto directory binding"-just keeps coming down the screen, over and over.
I'm totally at my wit's end, and was considering getting the Disk Warrior, but was kind of unsure if that would help, since I can't get past the grey screen if the Disk Warrior would be of any help any way, or if it would be the way to go because it doesn't need to actually get past the "kernel" screen (all this new terminology-whatta learning curve!)
Also, I don't have a MacOS disc handy, because I bought my Mac from work as they were being updated with G5's and were thus formatted through work.
Can anyone give me some pointers? I would really appreciate any help that anyone could give me, because i LOVE my new Mac and the suspense of being shut out from using it is excrutiating...thanks again.
talk soon
MV
