I have a powerbook with os x 10.4 in it. I have had it for 4 or 5 years now and this is the first problem I have had.
When I start up I get passed the gray screen and to the blue one while the bar will fill all the way up and say " starting mac os " but never loads it. I am deployed right now and don't have my disk so I am looking for help with not using the disk if I can.
1. I have tried to start in safe mode/boot but if something is to open when I do this it never does and will get to the blue bar like I said.
2. I have tried to restart the nvram and the pram but I don't see this doing anything.
3. I have tried going into single user mode and I get so far till it tells me my ROOT USER is a read only and they can't get it, so it goes into sleep. In this I tried to see my profiles and they are there. I tried to force a login but it will not take my password.
4. In single user mode I did the fyv or whatever test and it said my hard drive looked fine.
Now sometimes my laptop will not even turn on at all because of all of this. Not sure what is going on and need anyone who knows what is going on. I am out of ideas, I am not a tech head guy and I only know a little about computers so any help please walk me into it slow. I only care about keeping the data on my hard drive so I am looking to just login one time so I can back it up and if there is a problem that can't be fixed no bid deal. I have wanted a new mac but had no reason to get one, this could be one.
When I start up I get passed the gray screen and to the blue one while the bar will fill all the way up and say " starting mac os " but never loads it. I am deployed right now and don't have my disk so I am looking for help with not using the disk if I can.
1. I have tried to start in safe mode/boot but if something is to open when I do this it never does and will get to the blue bar like I said.
2. I have tried to restart the nvram and the pram but I don't see this doing anything.
3. I have tried going into single user mode and I get so far till it tells me my ROOT USER is a read only and they can't get it, so it goes into sleep. In this I tried to see my profiles and they are there. I tried to force a login but it will not take my password.
4. In single user mode I did the fyv or whatever test and it said my hard drive looked fine.
Now sometimes my laptop will not even turn on at all because of all of this. Not sure what is going on and need anyone who knows what is going on. I am out of ideas, I am not a tech head guy and I only know a little about computers so any help please walk me into it slow. I only care about keeping the data on my hard drive so I am looking to just login one time so I can back it up and if there is a problem that can't be fixed no bid deal. I have wanted a new mac but had no reason to get one, this could be one.