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Brief background: Upgraded my G4 17-inch Powerbook hard drive to a Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB one. Formatted & installed Leopard. Working fine for the last couple of weeks.
The problem: decided to erase my trash using 'Secure Empty Trash'. The process got down to the last 25 items to erase and seemed to hang. I hard-rebooted the machine, then continued emtying the trash. Same problem, just hung at these last few items, though the computer was otherwise functioning OK.
Then an automated upgrade came through and I said OK to proceed. The upgrade required a restart, so I said OK to restart. However, it couldn't do a soft restart so I had to do another hard reset (holding down the power button).
When I booted it up it went straight into Setup Assistant so I answered all the questions and...it went back into Setup Assistant. Whatever I tried it would always come back to Setup Assistant. I then chose the setup option to transfer files from another Mac volume on my computer and it displayed the correct amount of free space on my hard drive, but indicated there was no system.
So what's gone wrong? How can I get back in (I NEED to recover some important files)? Any help gratefully appreciated!
The problem: decided to erase my trash using 'Secure Empty Trash'. The process got down to the last 25 items to erase and seemed to hang. I hard-rebooted the machine, then continued emtying the trash. Same problem, just hung at these last few items, though the computer was otherwise functioning OK.
Then an automated upgrade came through and I said OK to proceed. The upgrade required a restart, so I said OK to restart. However, it couldn't do a soft restart so I had to do another hard reset (holding down the power button).
When I booted it up it went straight into Setup Assistant so I answered all the questions and...it went back into Setup Assistant. Whatever I tried it would always come back to Setup Assistant. I then chose the setup option to transfer files from another Mac volume on my computer and it displayed the correct amount of free space on my hard drive, but indicated there was no system.
So what's gone wrong? How can I get back in (I NEED to recover some important files)? Any help gratefully appreciated!