HELP!! urgant!!:( Mac wont start!! college deadline!! all my work on there!!

Joined
Jul 22, 2007
Messages
55
Reaction score
0
Points
6
Your Mac's Specs
PPC G4 Digital Audio,466 MHz, 768 SDRAM
ok, heres the situaltion. my mac will only load to the blue screen before the login menue is supposed to pop up and takes ages even to do that...

ive tryed booting from the install disks but it doesnt show my main hard drive in the install menue.

most of my final mayjor project is in there witch needs to be in next week!!!!

PLEASE HELP! any help will be MUCH appreiciated

(sorry about spelling...in a rush)
 

rman


Retired Staff
Joined
Dec 24, 2002
Messages
12,637
Reaction score
168
Points
63
Location
Los Angeles, California
Your Mac's Specs
14in MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB 2TB
First boot from your install media. Next from one of the drop down menus choose the disk utility application. Once it is up and running verify that you do see your system disk. If you do, then most likely you have a corrupted system file. If you can see your system disk and you have a another Apple system. Connect both system via firewire. Boot your Mac Pro in target mode. On the other system boot as normal. You should see the Mac Pro System disk mounted. Drag off the data that you need or make a back up. So that you can rebuild your system. If you have a n application like disk warrior, you can verify that your system disk file system is okay.

If you don't see your system disk you may have lost your system disk.
 
OP
M
Joined
Jul 22, 2007
Messages
55
Reaction score
0
Points
6
Your Mac's Specs
PPC G4 Digital Audio,466 MHz, 768 SDRAM
i dont have another mac:( is it all gone?!
 
Joined
Aug 2, 2005
Messages
1,229
Reaction score
75
Points
48
Your Mac's Specs
2.6GHz Core i7 15" MacBook Pro - 8GB DDR3 SDRAM - 750GB 7200 RPM HDD - GeForce 650M GT 1GB VRAM
The fastest route is to boot Linux from a CD. Find a friend with an Internet connection (as you seem to have done if you're on this forum), get the Ubuntu (PPC version, and for the love of God, not 7.10; either 6.06 or 8.04) live CD and burn it. Then put it in your Mac, restart the Mac, and hold the option key as you turn it on again. You should get the option to either boot from Macintosh HD or the CD. If you're very lucky, you should be able to read and copy your data files onto a USB disc and work with whatever computer you do have access to. This kind of situation is often (but not always) tricky when you put stuff in a password-protected user folder, though. Make sure when Ubuntu starts up to
 

Shop Amazon


Shop for your Apple, Mac, iPhone and other computer products on Amazon.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon and affiliated sites.
Top