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My wifes IMAC won't start which is a big problem for me. I hate touching her computer.
The original OS was 10.6 Snow Leopard but the only OS install disks I have is tiger 10.4.
I have used these to boot the computer and from there tried to do a verify and repair of the HDD but that fails with errors.
Is there anything else I can try to do to repair the OS?
I think I will need to format the HDD and install a new OS.
Is that so? I just want to make sure I have done everything I can before that
As the 10.4 disks are not the same as the existing OS, this means that I cannot Archive the existing OS and install the new OS in its place but must do a format.
How good is the 10.4 OS compared with 10.6? Is it worthwhile tring to track down some 10.6 retail disks?
Thank you for any advice you can give me. John.
The original OS was 10.6 Snow Leopard but the only OS install disks I have is tiger 10.4.
I have used these to boot the computer and from there tried to do a verify and repair of the HDD but that fails with errors.
Is there anything else I can try to do to repair the OS?
I think I will need to format the HDD and install a new OS.
Is that so? I just want to make sure I have done everything I can before that
As the 10.4 disks are not the same as the existing OS, this means that I cannot Archive the existing OS and install the new OS in its place but must do a format.
How good is the 10.4 OS compared with 10.6? Is it worthwhile tring to track down some 10.6 retail disks?
Thank you for any advice you can give me. John.