stuck light blueish screen with the apple sign and that little circular loading icon

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Hi there,

(I think i have OS 10.4, its the late 2008 aluminium 2.0ghz model)

When i turn on my macbook, it comes up to that really bright, light blueish screen with the apple sign and that little circular loading icon below......it just stays on this screen and does not load up at all! once, it changed from that first screen to a blank screen that was like a darker sky blue, but again it just stayed on that screen.

PLEASE help me! i need to access stuff on there asap!
 
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I had a similar problem with Leopard and reinstalled my OS from the disks that came with my system. But if you just need to access the files on it, you can just target boot (boot and hold "T") and connect to another computer using firewire.
 
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I had a similar problem with Leopard and reinstalled my OS from the disks that came with my system. But if you just need to access the files on it, you can just target boot (boot and hold "T") and connect to another computer using firewire.

I see......

I dont think my macbook is firewire capable? does this sound right?

Shall i try and pull the battery out then put it back in?
 
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All macs have firewire ports. looks like a 3 point looks somewhat like a drive symbol. but you also need to have a firewire external harddrive with mac os on it.

Wish I could help you other then what leo suggested.
 
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All macs have firewire ports. looks like a 3 point looks somewhat like a drive symbol. but you also need to have a firewire external harddrive with mac os on it.

Wish I could help you other then what leo suggested.

My partner has the same macbook as me, could i hook the firewire up to that to remove my files?

Also, is it worth putting my battery back out then in?
 
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My partner has the same macbook as me, could i hook the firewire up to that to remove my files?

Also, is it worth putting my battery back out then in?

Battery in and out will just wipe out your clock from my experience and probably won't do much for you. What happens if you put in any other discs , you could always put the install disc into the drive and try to run the hardware test, i'm starting to lean towards some sort of hardware failure.
 
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Battery in and out will just wipe out your clock from my experience and probably won't do much for you. What happens if you put in any other discs , you could always put the install disc into the drive and try to run the hardware test, i'm starting to lean towards some sort of hardware failure.


so when i get to that frozer screen do you think i should insert the 'applications install dvd' or the 'Mac OS X install dvd'?
 
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You don't get to either screen.. when the screen is still grey before the Apple logo at boot you need to follow this... i'll link it

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