out of the blue

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pidgeon

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my imac (dalmation) had a flashing questionmark,i got passed that, I am able now to boot from a cd and ran diskwarrior, everthing seemed fine,
I started in single user mode and ran fsck, it reported everything was ok,
THE PROBLEM... diskwarrior reports that my hard drive does not appear on the desktop, when i reboot i get the mouse arrow (which jumps back and forth to a spinning color wheel) but i still only get a blue screen, no desktop icons,
does anyone know why, if so how do i get my desktop back?
any help would be much appreciated,
thanks, pidgeon
 
It sound like the Finder is crashing and restarting over and over on ya... this can be caused by anything from a strangely-named file on your Desktop to a complete system malfunction.

Most likely it's a file on your Desktop with a funky name. Look for any files on your Desktop (probably have to do this in single-user mode) and either rename them, back them up and delete them, or just delete them -- then try booting again.

If that doesn't work, report back and we'll try something else!
 
Thank you eldiablo!
the desktop was a total mess...I did succeed by re-installing the osx / install-archive...managed to save everything on there whooohoo!!
rob
 
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