Anand: I recently had a similar senario installing 10.1. Did you try holding down the option key during reboot? I took awhile but eventually it found another system folder and opened to the hard drive.
Bonnie > > Hi everybody, > > I had a serious, "Oh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" I'm sure you'll get a good snicker out > of it. I'm drifting cautiously toward OS X Or so I thought. I've made > an arrangement with a person from the LEM swap list to buy 10.2. (If > your out there please contact me.) In my collection of Mac stuff I fix > and give away there was a set of iMac restore discs with OS 10.1 which I > thought I would look at tp see what was on them. Wth previous OSs one > could look at the contents by going to "custom install," so I thought I > would try that. Well, it did not work the way I expected it to. I > never tried to install the OS but I had to reboot to extract myself from > the discs. Instead of my usual happy Mac in OS 9.2.2 I got a flashing > folder with a question mark, indicating it could not find the OS. So I > has to reinstall OS 9.2.2 loosing access to the hard drive contents. > Somewhere I have a techtool pro 3 disk. I think one of its functions > is finding lost info like this but I've never tried it for this kind of > thing. Any suggestions of things to try to get any of my data back? > > Related to this, I lost my email contact with the person selling > the OS 10.2. So if you read this please contact me. > > Thanks all, > Anand -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
