My last resort.

[XI Media Prod]

Hello all. I'm new to this forum and I've only owned my own Power Mac G5 for about three months now.

When I received the computer, I had OS X 10.4 I believe. Just a few weeks ago my hard drive crashed. NOT HAPPY!

I wait over a week to get the computer back from the Apple store and all of the sudden I don't have any of the iLife apps that were initially on my computer. No Garage Band, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto...so I thought (and so did apple care) to try to reboot off of the disc that came with my comp. I did, and the disc is definitely recognized, but the computer won't boot off of the disc. I tried going into the folders to find the extra apps to install to no avail.

I have talked to three customer support people, the Apple store, and a relative that works for Apple....none of them know what's wrong. I am using this as a last resort so that I don't have to take my comp BACK to the Apple store (not happy with them or their service...which is another story).

PLEASE HELP ME!!! I can't thank you all enough in advance for even trying.

Take care and let the hits come in.

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[nixgeek]

So you're saying that you tried to boot from the software restore discs that came with your Mac but it wouldn't boot? DId you hold down C after the Mac startup chime while the disc was inserted in the drive? If not, then do that and it should start up from the install/restore disc.

 

[XI Media Prod]

My problem was definitely more complex than that. Thank you for the advice, in the end, the oh so "genius" people at the Apple store gave me the wrong boot disk...therefore, it wouldn't work. Easy enough huh?

Thanks again for the help!

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[Mikuro]

If I'm not mistaken, your computer should have come with a separate iLife DVD, in addition to the bootable OS X install DVD. That's where the big apps like iMovie and iDVD would be.