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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 351662" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>OK, this sounds bad, really bad. If it won't boot at all, there are two possibilities: (1) corrupted OS, and (2) hardware issue.</p><p></p><p>I would tend to omit (1) since you have repeatedly reloaded. (2) seems the more likely option. I know that there are a number of good hardware diagnostic programs out there, but I am not sure if any of them come on a "rescue disk" type CD which you can boot from separately.</p><p></p><p>M-F readers: who knows of a good emergency CD for Macs, that can be booted from and contains all the right hardware diagnostics (or at least supports copying data off the main drive ... if it still working)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 351662, member: 17052"] OK, this sounds bad, really bad. If it won't boot at all, there are two possibilities: (1) corrupted OS, and (2) hardware issue. I would tend to omit (1) since you have repeatedly reloaded. (2) seems the more likely option. I know that there are a number of good hardware diagnostic programs out there, but I am not sure if any of them come on a "rescue disk" type CD which you can boot from separately. M-F readers: who knows of a good emergency CD for Macs, that can be booted from and contains all the right hardware diagnostics (or at least supports copying data off the main drive ... if it still working)? [/QUOTE]
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