right I have got massive problems. im actually writing this on my mobile. I cant use my mac. everything was fine until i turned it on just now.
its taking ages to load up and is freezing on the startup screen with the blue status bar .
anyone know how to fix this as i have loads to do tonight .
cheers.
in a tremendously useful post, buy a proper computer, not a tonka toy.
But on a more serious note, isnt there a key combo you can hold down that will boot to the mac equivalent of safe mode? its apple and somethign or other
have you got the osx cd?
throw it in, hold down c as soon as you switch on...
then you can run disk utility to see if there is a hdd problem, or file prermissions etc.
okay i put the cd in and ran the repair utility . it tells me that there age errors which cant be fixed with the disk. i cant format is there anything else i can do?
eeek...
does it say what the errors are?
What mac is it?
you could plug a usb HDD/ipod in and install OSX onto that 2nd hdd to get to your data etc?
Installed Mac OS x on my backup drive and managed to recover some documents and music. I lost all my apps, emails and bookmarks though
Right gotta spend all night installing everything now
You should be able just to drag the .app file from one install to the other.
Did that but forgot to save all my data files
Backups bud!
Second time this has happened to me in as many months. Just brought some mac backup softwareOriginally Posted by David
Backups bud!
You tempted to get one of those LaCie units which sits under it?
Funny this is that I have already got one
Just use it for photos - and now a disk image
Nick don't buy backup software just download a program called iBackup. Its great for backing up macs. As well as restoring them.
Also the disk errors could be something to do with wierd files, I know photoshop produces errors when its installed due to the legal folder.
You could try diskwarrior to restore the files.
Also got ibackup which is a good program. I'm just so annoyed that this is the second time it has happened to me
Will Try diskwarrior when I get home tonight, the only thing that really annoys me is all the emails and message rules I created, they took me ages.
iBackup will backup all that for you so if the worst happens again you will have everything backed up.
Out of interest have you got the mini on a surge protector and how did the disk fail before?
I don't have the mini on a surge protector at all..
I was using everything and it was cool, the next time I restarted it would just crash on the bootup screen.
Reinstalled the OS and it now seems fine...
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