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<blockquote data-quote="bigfefan" data-source="post: 1049509" data-attributes="member: 99761"><p>I've got this iMac sitting next to me. Early 2009 model, and I have Snow Leopard on it. I logged into an account about 8 minutes ago, and it showed that video that Macs normally show the first time you start them up (with all the languages saying "welcome"). Of course this scared the **** out of me and I unplugged the mac for fear that it would erase my partition or something. I turned it on and it's stuck at the gray boot menu with the gray apple logo and that gray spinner thing underneath. I tried turning on again and it's still at that.</p><p></p><p>I have a Windows partition, so I restarted and held down ALT. My Mac partition still has its neat little custom icon I gave it, so my Mac partition is not erased entirely (by the way, Windows 7 has been doing a lot of boot-up disk checks lately). I also have MacDrive on my Windows partition, and when I go into the Mac partition, nothing seems to be wrong. Nobody's documents or photos are missing and it's all good.</p><p></p><p>I just remember deleting the following folders at the root of the partition under a root account shortly before logging into that account where the video showed up:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Applications (Mac OS 9)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">User Guides and Information (from old Mac)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">sh (pretty sure this had to do with some program for installing linux apps. it was never there before i installed that, and now that program's been deleted for a long time, so i just ditched the sh folder.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">maybe something else from that old installation of Mac OS 9, i forgot</li> </ul><p></p><p>My Windows 7 partition has no viruses (I just scanned, believe me) and that's working fine. But I'm very concerned about this Mac partition that refuses to go past that gray boot screen. This is a family computer, and other users have thousands of photos, video projects, and music libraries that they'd certainly like to keep. I see my last resort as using the Windows partition to back up everything in the Mac partition to one of our HUGE neglected external hard drives, and then just erase the Mac partition and reinstall Snow. But do I really have to do that, or is there an unbelievably stupid solution I overlooked?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigfefan, post: 1049509, member: 99761"] I've got this iMac sitting next to me. Early 2009 model, and I have Snow Leopard on it. I logged into an account about 8 minutes ago, and it showed that video that Macs normally show the first time you start them up (with all the languages saying "welcome"). Of course this scared the **** out of me and I unplugged the mac for fear that it would erase my partition or something. I turned it on and it's stuck at the gray boot menu with the gray apple logo and that gray spinner thing underneath. I tried turning on again and it's still at that. I have a Windows partition, so I restarted and held down ALT. My Mac partition still has its neat little custom icon I gave it, so my Mac partition is not erased entirely (by the way, Windows 7 has been doing a lot of boot-up disk checks lately). I also have MacDrive on my Windows partition, and when I go into the Mac partition, nothing seems to be wrong. Nobody's documents or photos are missing and it's all good. I just remember deleting the following folders at the root of the partition under a root account shortly before logging into that account where the video showed up: [LIST] [*]Applications (Mac OS 9) [*]User Guides and Information (from old Mac) [*]sh (pretty sure this had to do with some program for installing linux apps. it was never there before i installed that, and now that program's been deleted for a long time, so i just ditched the sh folder.) [*]maybe something else from that old installation of Mac OS 9, i forgot [/LIST] My Windows 7 partition has no viruses (I just scanned, believe me) and that's working fine. But I'm very concerned about this Mac partition that refuses to go past that gray boot screen. This is a family computer, and other users have thousands of photos, video projects, and music libraries that they'd certainly like to keep. I see my last resort as using the Windows partition to back up everything in the Mac partition to one of our HUGE neglected external hard drives, and then just erase the Mac partition and reinstall Snow. But do I really have to do that, or is there an unbelievably stupid solution I overlooked? [/QUOTE]
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