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imac g5 trouble starting up
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1426216" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>No one said anything about reinstalling (just booting the computer from the disk)...thus you would not loose any files. </p><p></p><p>Booting from an OS disk can help possibly determine if the computer is suffering from something other than a hard drive issue. If the computer can successfully boot from an OS disk (and it cannot boot from the internal HD)...this could mean that there is a problem with the hard drive.</p><p></p><p>If (in a worst case scenario) the hard drive is "dead"...then you most likely won't be able to recover your files (unless you want to pay a lot of money to have this done). This is why we are supposed to maintain hard drive backups.</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1426216, member: 56379"] No one said anything about reinstalling (just booting the computer from the disk)...thus you would not loose any files. Booting from an OS disk can help possibly determine if the computer is suffering from something other than a hard drive issue. If the computer can successfully boot from an OS disk (and it cannot boot from the internal HD)...this could mean that there is a problem with the hard drive. If (in a worst case scenario) the hard drive is "dead"...then you most likely won't be able to recover your files (unless you want to pay a lot of money to have this done). This is why we are supposed to maintain hard drive backups. - Nick [/QUOTE]
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