[muglo] Re: No boot up

Hi Gerhard
This is a "luxo" lamp iMac, yes?
holding the mouse button down (left button, if it's a 2 button mouse)  
on startup should open the optical drive. if not, then yes, the  
paperclip should work.
If you are unable to repair the drive, I would do an Archive and  
Install on it, making sure to "preserve user accounts". It's under  
Options in the Tiger installer
I highly recommend DiskWarrior if you can afford it ($120 CAN from  
Mostly Digital). It's saved my butt too many times to count.

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On 14-Jun-07, at 11:33 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

> Hi Scott
>
> First I have to find the OS 10.4 disk and then figure out how open  
> the CD drive, I think this one can be opened with the paperclip  
> thing it is just not that easy to open the exterior door manually  
> but it should not be a problem.  The drive seems to work fine, I  
> copied a couple of files via firewire.  I imagine what I will do is  
> try to format the drive and then try to do a OS install.  Should  
> that fail I will attempt to install the OS on the external LaCie  
> hard drive and see if I can get it to boot from there.  I really  
> don't want to rip the thing apart to install a new drive and I  
> doubt the computer is worth paying a technician to do replace the  
> internal drive.
>
> Gerhard
>
> On Thursday, June 14, 2007, at 10:38AM, "Scott Strawbridge"  
> <scotts1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Can you boot from your system disk and run disk utility from there?
>> it looks bad.
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>> Scott Strawbridge | Graphic Artist
>> scotts1@xxxxxxx
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>>
>>
>>
>> On 14-Jun-07, at 9:59 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>>
>>> I brought my laptop in and thought that I would run disk utility
>>> repair on it and that led to an error after 30 seconds or so this is
>>> the message I got.
>>> http://mypixel.ca/muglo/disk.jpg
>>>
>>> Would my best option be to format the drive and then try to  
>>> reinstall
>>> the OS.  I guess I better go look for the disk.
>>>
>>>
>>> Gerhard
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 13, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Scott Strawbridge wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Gerhard
>>>> can you get it to boot into Single User mode (restart, hold down
>>>> command S until you get the Unix prompt)?
>>>> then type fsck -fy and hit return (I'm assuming you're running  
>>>> Tiger.
>>>> if not, then type fsck -y)
>>>> this will run a file system check and repair anything damaged.  
>>>> If you
>>>> are running Tiger, fsck will keep running until it comes up with no
>>>> more errors. If you are running Panther or lower, keep repeat the
>>>> process until the check reports no errors.
>>>> when the drive checks as ok, type reboot and hit return.
>>>> The mac should restart
>>>> Do you have a copy of DiskWarrior or another repair utility
>>>> (TechTool, etc.) on hand? if so, try booting from the CD.
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>>>> Scott Strawbridge | Graphic Artist
>>>> scotts1@xxxxxxx
>>>> http://homepage.mac.com/scotts1
>>>> http://www.scottstrawbridge.com
>>>> http://www.liquidphoenixdesign.com
>>>>
>>>> msn: scottstrawbridge@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> ichat/aol: scotts1@xxxxxxx
>>>> yahoo: straws4@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13-Jun-07, at 12:11 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This morning we went to boot up our oldest Mac, a G4 800 iMac.   
>>>>> All
>>>>> it does is come to a gray screen with the apple logo, the hard-
>>>>> drive seems to be spinning I can boot to target mode but I don't
>>>>> have my laptop with me right now so can't confirm that the hard-
>>>>> drive is o.k.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gerhard
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