I have a G4 flat-screen iMac running OSX Panther. Yesterday it completely froze up, and on trying to reboot I was faced with a plain grey screen with just a small folder icon and within it alternating a Finder "face" logo and a question mark.
By searching this site today I learned how to get the CD drive open, and also about using the system install disk to launch Disk Utility. I've got Disk Utility open and in the panel on the left it lists the Hard Drive, together with the Superdrive and the disk itself. On highlighting the hard drive it gves some details (size etc). I selected "First Aid" and it says "Select Volume and click a repair button" However the box below this instruction is empty and all the repair buttons are "greyed out".
Any ideas how to proceed? Should I try re-installing the OS? I should say that there are some digital photos on this drive (and nowhere else) that I don't want to lose (I know, I know!) so my first priority is to try to get it working enough to get copies of the photo files onto a USB flash drive or something. I don't want to do anything that might harm my chances of saving those photo files.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
By searching this site today I learned how to get the CD drive open, and also about using the system install disk to launch Disk Utility. I've got Disk Utility open and in the panel on the left it lists the Hard Drive, together with the Superdrive and the disk itself. On highlighting the hard drive it gves some details (size etc). I selected "First Aid" and it says "Select Volume and click a repair button" However the box below this instruction is empty and all the repair buttons are "greyed out".
Any ideas how to proceed? Should I try re-installing the OS? I should say that there are some digital photos on this drive (and nowhere else) that I don't want to lose (I know, I know!) so my first priority is to try to get it working enough to get copies of the photo files onto a USB flash drive or something. I don't want to do anything that might harm my chances of saving those photo files.
Thanks in advance for any advice.