Hello all, I'm new to Macs so maybe you can shed some light on my plight.
I'm having trouble starting up my Mac with OS Tiger, Dual Core G5, heres the story:
I was trying to backup my OS using Carbon Copy Cloner onto a backup drive. The copy seemed to go smoothly, then I wanted to make sure it worked so I set my startup drive to the new backup clone.
When the computer reset, it got to the gray apple screen with the load up icon spinning. I let it load for a good 5 minutes but NOTHING loaded. I didn't get to the blue, login screen. It just hung up on the gray apple screen.
I tried to reset by holding down the power button for 5 seconds to try and restart it, and the SAME THING happened. I cannot get past the load screen.
I've tried putting in the installation CD to change the Startup disk, but I can't boot off the CD either. I've tried the Shift S, C, Command Shift Option Delete, and the T startup commands and nothing seems to work. The only that I can do is open and close the CD tray.
I'm not familiar with Macs and I'm kinda desperate. Anything else I could try, to change the Startup disk drive? I was thinking of unpluging the power the the backup drive in hopes that the system would look for my original drive, and boot off that.
Any suggestions are appreciated! THANKS
I'm having trouble starting up my Mac with OS Tiger, Dual Core G5, heres the story:
I was trying to backup my OS using Carbon Copy Cloner onto a backup drive. The copy seemed to go smoothly, then I wanted to make sure it worked so I set my startup drive to the new backup clone.
When the computer reset, it got to the gray apple screen with the load up icon spinning. I let it load for a good 5 minutes but NOTHING loaded. I didn't get to the blue, login screen. It just hung up on the gray apple screen.
I tried to reset by holding down the power button for 5 seconds to try and restart it, and the SAME THING happened. I cannot get past the load screen.
I've tried putting in the installation CD to change the Startup disk, but I can't boot off the CD either. I've tried the Shift S, C, Command Shift Option Delete, and the T startup commands and nothing seems to work. The only that I can do is open and close the CD tray.
I'm not familiar with Macs and I'm kinda desperate. Anything else I could try, to change the Startup disk drive? I was thinking of unpluging the power the the backup drive in hopes that the system would look for my original drive, and boot off that.
Any suggestions are appreciated! THANKS
