Recent content by heartstar7703

Thank you for those instructions, although I don't understand what a guid partition table and mac extended journaled format means at all. Ill see what I can figure out. What should I try to do after that to troubleshoot further?

I have this non bootable mac and 3 broken pc's right now, I'm desperate to fix one of them. Is there any other way to backup ? I would like to save the info if possible, but if I can't, but I can make the computer work again, so be it.

How do I back it up if it won't boot?

I'm not sure if they were apple authorized or not, I asked if the worked on macs, they said yes. Do you know of any other tests I can run or ways to diagnose if the hd is really the problem?

FYI: This is my first mac, so I am pretty new to all this..... My imac was slowing down the last few months it was up and running, intermittant kernal panics (but at the time I had no clue what that meant, so I just kept rebooting to make it go away) then one day a grey screen when trying to...

No, I did not install snow leopard, still running tiger. I did the other 2 suggestions and no dice.

No, I did both things you suggested (besides installing snow leopard) I was told by some people that because I'm going from tiger to snow leopard it won't work because I needed to upgrade to the os that came before snow leopard first. Is this true? Do you think installing the snow leopard...

No, I have not ignored you. I did try what you suggested and it did not help. I posted a reply to your post but it said it had to be moderated before it was posted, and I see it hasn't been posted yet. I dont even know if this one will go through.

Have done that already. Thats not fixing it.

Hello, thanks for your reply. I have done both things you suggested above (have not installed snow leopard yet). It still is rebooting slooow and running slooow. Rainbow wheel almost everytime I click on something or try and type something. I know macs are less susceptible to viruses, but...

Hello, I have had my imac for about a year now (bought it used) In the last few weeks it began to run slower and slower. The rainbow wheel spins and spins when on the internet, my kodak and other photo editing software run slow, it's now at a slow crawl compared to when I first got it. I...