On May 20, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
OK. Sounds as if your Mac's optical drive won't recognize a DVD. I'd also guess that your external DVD drive is connected via USB and not firewire, which is why your Mac won't boot from that drive either.
That's the funny part, it should. It plays DVDs.
Then try this: Use your older OS X disk, which IIRC is Panther, which is on CD and not DVD. Try, using either method above, to boot from that CD. I've used earlier OS X install disks to boot and change the password. If this works, don't forget the other poster's advice about starting a new keychain to avoid future password issues.
I have 4 OSX disks for panther. It was an upgrade. Which disk do I use? One is Mac OS X Xcode Tools an install disk. I think I tried this and it still asked me for a password.
Would the external DVD drive act as a start up drive if it was connected by firewire?
Sheesh, when did Macs get so darn complicated? I used to be able to do all kinds of maintenance on all my OS 9 Macs.
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