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Helllppppp!!!!!
HELLLPPP!!!!!
i'm seriously ready to cry.
i bought a lime green clamshell ibook on ebay and i loved it (notice the past tense). i had it running on os10.3 and everything was ok but i was having problems with my airport card and getting on the net and some other goofy, minor problems so i wanted to reinstall 10.3. i inserted the disk and pressed down the c key and i froze. there was no way out so i had to restart by holding down the restart button. i think it might have happened again so the final time i just launched the disk without hold down the c key and all looked fine. i double clicked on the reinstall icon it said it would restart and the when it did i got that grey screen with all of the different languages tell me to restart. well at this point i tried everything. at this point there wasn't much to save on that drive so i figured it was time to upgrade because obviously i fried that hard drive.
yesterday i installed my BRAND NEW hard drive all went well. i've taken a tangerine one apart and replace parts in the past so there was no fear in the install process. well here is the problem. i figured now is a good time as any to upgrade to os10.4 because this is a blank hard-drive. it's clean and looking for an os.
first i turned on the computer to see if all was connected ok and the screen displayed a blinking question mark.
i restarted this time with he os10.4 disk in place and with the c key pressed down. after about a minute of grinding noises the cd ejected and the question mark reappeared.
HELP ME. i really thought this was a hard drive problem.
i don't know what to now. i did that PRAM thing. i tried loading a earlier OS and all i get is the ejected disk and the blinking folder with the question mark. WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!!???
p.s. nothing bad happen to my CD drive. there was no bump, accident, drop or jam.
please respond ASAP
HELLLPPP!!!!!
i'm seriously ready to cry.
i bought a lime green clamshell ibook on ebay and i loved it (notice the past tense). i had it running on os10.3 and everything was ok but i was having problems with my airport card and getting on the net and some other goofy, minor problems so i wanted to reinstall 10.3. i inserted the disk and pressed down the c key and i froze. there was no way out so i had to restart by holding down the restart button. i think it might have happened again so the final time i just launched the disk without hold down the c key and all looked fine. i double clicked on the reinstall icon it said it would restart and the when it did i got that grey screen with all of the different languages tell me to restart. well at this point i tried everything. at this point there wasn't much to save on that drive so i figured it was time to upgrade because obviously i fried that hard drive.
yesterday i installed my BRAND NEW hard drive all went well. i've taken a tangerine one apart and replace parts in the past so there was no fear in the install process. well here is the problem. i figured now is a good time as any to upgrade to os10.4 because this is a blank hard-drive. it's clean and looking for an os.
first i turned on the computer to see if all was connected ok and the screen displayed a blinking question mark.
i restarted this time with he os10.4 disk in place and with the c key pressed down. after about a minute of grinding noises the cd ejected and the question mark reappeared.
HELP ME. i really thought this was a hard drive problem.
i don't know what to now. i did that PRAM thing. i tried loading a earlier OS and all i get is the ejected disk and the blinking folder with the question mark. WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!!???
p.s. nothing bad happen to my CD drive. there was no bump, accident, drop or jam.
please respond ASAP
