On Sep 30, 5:28 pm, Dale Goodvin <dgood...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> the restore disc says to press "C" but I tried the option key and did have a
> new screen come up: icon of hard drive with an "X" on it; a curved and
> straight arrow. Before the system lets me click on either arrow, it again
> ejects the disc. Clicking on the curved arrow does nothing; clicking on the
> straight arrow caused the system to boot as normal.
>
> Every system disc I try, even the Applications disc is ejected. To check the
> cd drive I put in a normal cd (with photos) and it was fine (appeared on the
> desktop, opened when disc icon was clicked).
>
> ????
>
> Dale
This sounds like the restore disks are DVD and you only have a CD
drive (or a combo drive with a faulty DVD laser),
With the Mac booted can it read the disks? if not then it won't boot
from them.
If the drive is faulty (It sounds as though it probably is) then you
can use an external firewire drive (using the option key at boot to
select it )
Also are these original restore disks, or 'copies' as a failing drive
may have problems with some brands of burned disk.
(If you have access to another machine that will read them you could
copy them to a better brand of blank if this is the case).
Ben.
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