problem with old mac

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So, recently my dad bought a mac os 10.2.8 from a friend. And nicely, he gave it to me. (lol) anyway, i was using it, and it was working pretty well. But then i found a old game for mac 9. And me being stupid with computers, i switched my hard drive through system preferences to mac 9. After that, it had asked me to restart my computer, which i did. But now a floppy disk with a question mark pops up, and i don't know how to fix it. And unfortunately i don't have the CD for the computer. So is there anyway to help?
 
Do you have the discs for 10.2.8? If you do, you can boot up from that and choose your start up disk from the menu items.
 
Reboot the Mac and hold down Option right when you hear the startup chime. Holding the Option key down should give you the ability to select the Mac OS X installation from there. Once you boot back into Mac OS X, head back into System Preferences and click on the Startup Disk pane. Once that's open, select the folder for Mac OS X once again so that it boots into that by default.
 
nixgeek said:
Reboot the Mac and hold down Option right when you hear the startup chime. Holding the Option key down should give you the ability to select the Mac OS X installation from there. Once you boot back into Mac OS X, head back into System Preferences and click on the Startup Disk pane. Once that's open, select the folder for Mac OS X once again so that it boots into that by default.
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I thought about this option, but I remember from a past eMac, that I could only choose the hard drive and not the system, it only came later.
 
The only other option would be to try Command-Option-Shift-Delete (not the small Del key, the larger one on the main set of keys). I'm not sure if this still works, but if it does it should scour for any bootable folder.
 
ah ok ill try this. sorry for late reply, i was away on vacation :]. ok ill try it today, or try to, then ill get back to you guys.
 
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