Hi, hopefully someone can help me. I have an imac (2008) running Leopard 10.5.4 and the other day i went to power it up and it is now just hanging on the blue screen with rotating gears appearing every so often!
I can't boot in safe mode (hangs on blue screen also) but can boot from the install DVD and windows XP on the HD partition. Single user mode also works.
I have run disk utility from the install DVD and it advises the disk appears to be OK. But it does give me an error when i try to repair permissions - "The underlying task reported failure on exit" Not sure if this has anything to my main issue or not.
Not sure what else to do, I have thought of reinstalling the OS with an archive and install but am afraid I will lose my files as I have not backed up in the last 6 months or so. I can always try get another mac and rescue files via firewire but was hoping its not that much of a problem.
I have searched many discussion groups and apples support and knowlegebase site with no luck!
Any help or suggestions, much appreciated! Thanks
I can't boot in safe mode (hangs on blue screen also) but can boot from the install DVD and windows XP on the HD partition. Single user mode also works.
I have run disk utility from the install DVD and it advises the disk appears to be OK. But it does give me an error when i try to repair permissions - "The underlying task reported failure on exit" Not sure if this has anything to my main issue or not.
Not sure what else to do, I have thought of reinstalling the OS with an archive and install but am afraid I will lose my files as I have not backed up in the last 6 months or so. I can always try get another mac and rescue files via firewire but was hoping its not that much of a problem.
I have searched many discussion groups and apples support and knowlegebase site with no luck!
Any help or suggestions, much appreciated! Thanks