Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Problem solved: I re-installed Leopard. I checked the logs, it said it could not boot from leopard (the old copy of leopard i had before it crashed) because of a bad HDD. OMG really? So i went out and bought myself a new 80GB EIDE HDD. Btw, I did lose all of my old programs, but i can just

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: Problem solved: I re-installed Leopard. I checked the logs, it said it could not boot from leopard (the old copy of leopard i had before it crashed) because of a bad HDD. OMG really? So i went out and bought myself a new 80GB EIDE HDD.

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/17/10 1:48 AM, James Therrault wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: *snip* failure until yesterday. I took it apart, and the entire disk was charred/scratched inside. How wonderful? Next time i'll think twice before buying Hard drives from Maxtor. Pics! Pics!

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Dan
At 3:48 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote: Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back? They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name to brand their lower-end drives. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: On 6/17/10 1:48 AM, James Therrault wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: *snip* failure until yesterday. I took it apart, and the entire disk was charred/scratched inside. How wonderful? Next time i'll think

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Dan wrote: At 3:48 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote: Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back? They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name to brand their lower-end drives. I remember something of the sort as the original

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Dan
At 10:39 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote: Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back? They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name to brand their lower-end drives. I remember something of the sort as the original Maxtors had high failure rates. Count two

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Dan wrote: At 10:39 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote: Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back? They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name to brand their lower-end drives. I remember something of the sort as the original

OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I had Mac OS X 10.5.8 on my PM G4, and I updated it to the 2010-004 security update. Since I had 3 Os's on my PM G4, it automatically booted up into Mac OS X Jaguar, and it told me to restart. Now I can't fix leopard and it loads up with the frey apple logo and spinning wheel for like forever! --

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Jun 15, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I had Mac OS X 10.5.8 on my PM G4, and I updated it to the 2010-004 security update. Since I had 3 Os's on my PM G4, it automatically booted up into Mac OS X Jaguar, and it told me to restart. Now I can't fix leopard and it loads up

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread Dan
At 1:58 AM -0400 6/16/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I had Mac OS X 10.5.8 on my PM G4, and I updated it to the 2010-004 security update. Since I had 3 Os's on my PM G4, it automatically booted up into Mac OS X Jaguar, and it told me to restart. Now I can't fix leopard and it loads up with the

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread Miguel Garcia Gell
Well thats sound bad, weeks ago I have the same bad experience 2 times (lucky one)... But try the Start in Safe Mode this Way with your left hand (at the SAME TIME) three fingers over Key SHIFT, ALT (Apple Logo) and V push the Power ON (keep your fingers on until) and after few seconds your

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 16, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote: But try the Start in Safe Mode this Way with your left hand (at the SAME TIME) three fingers over Key SHIFT, ALT (Apple Logo) and V push the Power ON (keep your fingers on until) and after few seconds your display turn black and the

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
this is bad. I used leopard assist to install leopard o my computer, and when i booted up into the leopard installer, it said that my HDD with leopard on it has bad sectors. The area which had bad sectors was quarantined into a different sector, and now, i lost all my data. My backups were on that

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: this is bad. I used leopard assist to install leopard o my computer, and when i booted up into the leopard installer, it said that my HDD with leopard on it has bad sectors. The area which had bad sectors was quarantined into a different

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: The area which had bad sectors was quarantined into a different sector, and now, i lost all my data. My backups were on that hdd too. Never, EVER EVER treat a partition on the same drive as a 'backup'. You essentially had two copies of