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10.4.11 to 10.5 "HELP" Totally Puzzled!
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<blockquote data-quote="montreal4" data-source="post: 1410043" data-attributes="member: 255004"><p>Using a 1 GHZ Power Mac G4- </p><p>Have 40 gigs on an 80 gig HD-</p><p>Have 2 gigs on board- </p><p>Installed Leopard with no problems- Restarted and all I get on screen is the apple logo and the spinning gear-</p><p>Rebooted from disk and ran Disk Utility's first aid, HD fine-</p><p>exited- </p><p>chose start up disk- </p><p>chose OS 10.5 on HD-</p><p>restarted and got the same apple logo and spinning gear-</p><p>restarted using these methods below and got the same response- </p><p>D key- force the boot device to be the internal hard drive-</p><p>Option key- choose startup disk at boot time-</p><p>X key- force boot into Mac OS X (older Macs that dual-boot into OS 9 and X) </p><p>Shift key- hold after power-up to boot into safe mode-</p><p>I can however boot into "Classic" and see all my files on 10.4.11 but I can't open anything and that also goes for anything on Classic- </p><p>Please Help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="montreal4, post: 1410043, member: 255004"] Using a 1 GHZ Power Mac G4- Have 40 gigs on an 80 gig HD- Have 2 gigs on board- Installed Leopard with no problems- Restarted and all I get on screen is the apple logo and the spinning gear- Rebooted from disk and ran Disk Utility's first aid, HD fine- exited- chose start up disk- chose OS 10.5 on HD- restarted and got the same apple logo and spinning gear- restarted using these methods below and got the same response- D key- force the boot device to be the internal hard drive- Option key- choose startup disk at boot time- X key- force boot into Mac OS X (older Macs that dual-boot into OS 9 and X) Shift key- hold after power-up to boot into safe mode- I can however boot into "Classic" and see all my files on 10.4.11 but I can't open anything and that also goes for anything on Classic- Please Help! [/QUOTE]
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