- Joined
- Nov 16, 2003
- Location
- Cleveland OHIO
ok guys. i wass screwing around on my mac (sorta newbie) and i went into startup disk, and selected osx 10.1. apparently someone half loaded it on here, i got this error that it couldnt locate finder, and that if i reboot i may not be able to start my computer. So i tried setting it back to OS 9.1, only it didnt show up. '
Well i wasnt gonna just avoid the problem and not shut down. its been acting up anyways. I reboot, and it hits the screen with the happy mac. then it just shuts off. Ok, so i try to boot from CD...the CD thing spins in the top left...the happy mac turns into a folder thats busted in half and it just sits there.
Ok, fine, i found an OS 8.5CD lying around. Booted from that, installed that flawlessly. ....Now i cant even access that....once i bootup the CD, i try to access my HDD, but it only shows me the OS8.5 install. i cant boot to os8.5 at all other than CD.
so....what the heck can i do guys? id hate to reformat it now because i dont have a copy of os9.1 or osx, but i gotta buttload of software that runs on os9.1-osx, so unless DarwinOS can run premeire, photoshop..etc..im kinda screwed.
i got this mac from my photography teacher. she was gonna throw it out. she gave me the software that she had, so os9.1 i guess she cant find.
Also its pretty old, and wont take osx.3, simply because of no usb. I have a newer ATI card in it, hella ram, huge HDD, and i belevie the CPU has been OC'd
Well i wasnt gonna just avoid the problem and not shut down. its been acting up anyways. I reboot, and it hits the screen with the happy mac. then it just shuts off. Ok, so i try to boot from CD...the CD thing spins in the top left...the happy mac turns into a folder thats busted in half and it just sits there.
Ok, fine, i found an OS 8.5CD lying around. Booted from that, installed that flawlessly. ....Now i cant even access that....once i bootup the CD, i try to access my HDD, but it only shows me the OS8.5 install. i cant boot to os8.5 at all other than CD.
so....what the heck can i do guys? id hate to reformat it now because i dont have a copy of os9.1 or osx, but i gotta buttload of software that runs on os9.1-osx, so unless DarwinOS can run premeire, photoshop..etc..im kinda screwed.
i got this mac from my photography teacher. she was gonna throw it out. she gave me the software that she had, so os9.1 i guess she cant find.
Also its pretty old, and wont take osx.3, simply because of no usb. I have a newer ATI card in it, hella ram, huge HDD, and i belevie the CPU has been OC'd