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HELP!! urgant!!:( Mac wont start!! college deadline!! all my work on there!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Discerptor" data-source="post: 660588" data-attributes="member: 12177"><p>The fastest route is to boot Linux from a CD. Find a friend with an Internet connection (as you seem to have done if you're on this forum), get the Ubuntu (PPC version, and for the love of God, not 7.10; either 6.06 or 8.04) live CD and burn it. Then put it in your Mac, restart the Mac, and hold the option key as you turn it on again. You should get the option to either boot from Macintosh HD or the CD. If you're very lucky, you should be able to read and copy your data files onto a USB disc and work with whatever computer you do have access to. This kind of situation is often (but not always) tricky when you put stuff in a password-protected user folder, though. Make sure when Ubuntu starts up to</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Discerptor, post: 660588, member: 12177"] The fastest route is to boot Linux from a CD. Find a friend with an Internet connection (as you seem to have done if you're on this forum), get the Ubuntu (PPC version, and for the love of God, not 7.10; either 6.06 or 8.04) live CD and burn it. Then put it in your Mac, restart the Mac, and hold the option key as you turn it on again. You should get the option to either boot from Macintosh HD or the CD. If you're very lucky, you should be able to read and copy your data files onto a USB disc and work with whatever computer you do have access to. This kind of situation is often (but not always) tricky when you put stuff in a password-protected user folder, though. Make sure when Ubuntu starts up to [/QUOTE]
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