I'd like to thank you in advance for taking time with this. I have an ibook (33.11, 500mhz, osx10.2.8,256mb ram,DSL w/sbc)that has gone seriously caput after working brilliantly for 4 1/2 years.Here's the rundown:I got small maintainance program off Softpedia called Applejack (you are hopefully familiar with it) about 2 weeks ago. The reviews were excellent from several sources, so I decided to use it. I booted up in single user mode, typed in "Applejack auto" and let it do its thing.Just an aside, I am not particularly computer literate when it comes to this kind of thing, but I read the instructions carefully and followed them exactly. It seemed to be going through different tasks, completing them, then going to the next one. Even though there seemed to be task completion (it would say "complete with such and such, preparing to do such and such" generally speaking)throughout the entire process a statement ran down the screen. It said something like "Tree family branch something out of something". I should be able to be more specific for you, as I saw it a thousand times, but the crash through my brain off. It was taking time so I lost focus for a few minutes. When I refocused, the same statement filled the left screen, but it was all in purple. Then it sat there for 2 hours doing nothing. I figured it was done, rebooted, and got the gray apple screen without the little "booting" spinner. The computer crackled and
popped for about 1 1/2 minutes, then the top half
of the apple was cut off by a black rectangle with
some color threads in it.The computer got silent and that is it. I can reboot (command, control, power)and turn on and off no problem, but
it always ends up here. I've attempted single user
mode, verbose mode, shift (safe boot)with exactly the same results (I lost most of my reboot software along the line,so have no verion of osx to boot from). I did find the original os9 boot cd, and can start that up, but don't want to use it and lose all my information. I am also quite poor and cannot afford to buy Discwarrior in the foreseeable future. Again I am relatively computer illiterate when it comes to technical stuff, but I was wondering if I couldn't burn Applejack or something else onto a disc on a friends computer
and load that in. I'm assuming such programs need
the os in order to operate. In any event, any help
you can give me would be greatly, greatly appreciated. This is my only computer and will be for some time, but if you can even tell me "forget it, it's gone", I can at least move on. Again, Thank You in advance for your time!
popped for about 1 1/2 minutes, then the top half
of the apple was cut off by a black rectangle with
some color threads in it.The computer got silent and that is it. I can reboot (command, control, power)and turn on and off no problem, but
it always ends up here. I've attempted single user
mode, verbose mode, shift (safe boot)with exactly the same results (I lost most of my reboot software along the line,so have no verion of osx to boot from). I did find the original os9 boot cd, and can start that up, but don't want to use it and lose all my information. I am also quite poor and cannot afford to buy Discwarrior in the foreseeable future. Again I am relatively computer illiterate when it comes to technical stuff, but I was wondering if I couldn't burn Applejack or something else onto a disc on a friends computer
and load that in. I'm assuming such programs need
the os in order to operate. In any event, any help
you can give me would be greatly, greatly appreciated. This is my only computer and will be for some time, but if you can even tell me "forget it, it's gone", I can at least move on. Again, Thank You in advance for your time!