i have a mac G4 with OS X 10.2 (jaguar) and a couple of days ago i went to go on the comp and my brother had it in OS 9 but it had been sitting there unused for a while and began to index the computer. When i went on it i tried to change the startup disk to OSX and it asked me if i wanted to stop indexing and i said yes.....a screen then poped up that said stopping indexing...and remained like that for the rest of the day untill it froze. Frustrated i turned off the computer and when i turned it back on it won't start up properly. A picture of a file folder shows up and flashes between a question mark and the OS 9 logo. I have tried restarting it a number of times pressing "x", "option", and "shift" during start up ...and there has been no change. I have put in my OSX installation CD and done a disk repair on disk utilities and there has been no change. I have tryed resetting PRAM but i'm not sure if it has worked. If i have the installation CD in when restarting it always goes to the installation start screen no matter what i press on the keyboard during startup....... i'm not really sure what else i can do....i really don't want to lose info...but if i can get my computer to recognize my harddrive...i'd be happy with that
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Jump to PostDon’t quote me on this, and I am not saying you should try it either,
but, when this happened to me, I took the drastic measure of
unplugging the power during the failing start-up, and I got my Mac
back with a "Your computer did not close down properly" message,
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