My brother figured he'd go through his kid's iMac and trash what he thought wasn't needed in their OS 9.2 system and upon reboot realized that he'd trashed too much. Now it won't boot into OS 9, and for some reason 10.1 hangs on the happy Mac.
Won't boot from a cd holding down the control-c and won't do anything different holding down the option key.....
Ideas?
Hi Tim. Yeah, I've got an idea. Keep your brother away from the computer. Ha ha! Seriously though, boot from an OS 9 CD so you can get to the hard drive. If he only put files in the trash and didn't empty, you may be able to use the "Put Away" command to get 'em back where they belong. If the trash has been emptied, I wouldn't try and use any unerase utilities (Norton, etc.) to replace critical system files that may have become corrupted. In the case of the latter you're probably looking at a fairly lengthy re-install process. You can use the "Archive and install" option for OS X to keep what's on there but it's gonna be a bear figuring out what to move to where. Did he have the computer backed up? I'm guessing not or else you wouldn't be looking for help. Good luck. John
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