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<blockquote data-quote="McGoldenGirl" data-source="post: 912951" data-attributes="member: 122790"><p>Hey Collin. So I backed it up onto an external hard drive.</p><p></p><p>Once I had done that I tired to erase all the data on my computers inernal disk in one big go so I just dragged all the biggest files (those those things that seem to house all of the other files in finder).. Like name, app, library etc.</p><p></p><p>It powers up but the apple logo appears and instantly starts flashing eraticaly with a no smoking signish type symbol.</p><p></p><p>I tried to firewire link it to my brothers mac but his harddrive is massive and bigger than mine so I couldnt do the disk image swappy thingy in disk utilities .</p><p></p><p>Is there a way to copy only a few things onto a flashdrive and start the macbook using a file copied from my brothers computer??</p><p></p><p>He has leopard and I have Tiger still because my DVD laser doesn't read disks anymore (which totally sucks!!)</p><p></p><p>Like whatever file I put in trash that made my computer go all funny must be on my brothers computer.. for instance a sort of 'start up' root path thingy???</p><p></p><p>Single user mode just says there is a problem booting from whatever the path was , the name of which '/trash/' was in the sentence.</p><p></p><p>I just tried to do single user again to see what it said and now it doesnt even come up!!! Just a symbol f a 'file' and a questionmark???</p><p></p><p>any help is much appreciated at this point guy!</p><p></p><p>XXX</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McGoldenGirl, post: 912951, member: 122790"] Hey Collin. So I backed it up onto an external hard drive. Once I had done that I tired to erase all the data on my computers inernal disk in one big go so I just dragged all the biggest files (those those things that seem to house all of the other files in finder).. Like name, app, library etc. It powers up but the apple logo appears and instantly starts flashing eraticaly with a no smoking signish type symbol. I tried to firewire link it to my brothers mac but his harddrive is massive and bigger than mine so I couldnt do the disk image swappy thingy in disk utilities . Is there a way to copy only a few things onto a flashdrive and start the macbook using a file copied from my brothers computer?? He has leopard and I have Tiger still because my DVD laser doesn't read disks anymore (which totally sucks!!) Like whatever file I put in trash that made my computer go all funny must be on my brothers computer.. for instance a sort of 'start up' root path thingy??? Single user mode just says there is a problem booting from whatever the path was , the name of which '/trash/' was in the sentence. I just tried to do single user again to see what it said and now it doesnt even come up!!! Just a symbol f a 'file' and a questionmark??? any help is much appreciated at this point guy! XXX [/QUOTE]
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