richy61986
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A couple months ago, I upgraded my powerbook from OS 9.2 to 10.2.8. Up until a couple days ago the computer booted up and ran perfectly fine. Then, the computer started taking a really long time to boot up. First when I turn it on, the smiling Macintosh computer comes up then it restarts and the regular boot up screen for OS X comes up. It takes about 5 minutes to boot up and when it finishes it goes to the blue screen and there's a spining pinwheel of death in the top left hand corner. That stays there for a couple minutes then it takes me into the black Darwin screen and asks for a login name and password. I have tried puting in my login name and password that I use to logon to OS X but it won't take it. Is there anything else I can try to bypass the Darwin screen besides reinstalling OS X, because I have some important files on my computer that aren't backed up and I don't want to lose them.