Did you try rebooting with the USB cable to the printer disconnected? Maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't had to reinstall for any reason. I do keep a bootable backup drive and also use Time Machine just in case.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > FWIW a few weeks back some printer driver (or some printer error report > about the paper or the toner cart or something) corrupted the USB > connection (or so it seemed) on this iMac, and then when I tried to reboot > it the gray screen with the apple just sat there and it would not boot. > The Apple store genius reinstalled the OS and it was fine. I'm not sure > what the printer did but it gorked the OS. The genius did not know either. > > My Apple experience has not been wildly different from my winders > experience, it is just another way to work and I honestly do not have much > preference one way or the other as long as the thing does what I want it to > do, when I want it done. > > --R > > On 2/1/12 1:51 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > >> If you're not needing to reinstall you're not working hard enough. Again >> I've been on the other side of the phone long enough to know that plenty of >> people have to re-install the Mac OS every day. >> > > ______________________________**_________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives > http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
