I have a combo drive: i just put in a dvd and it asked if I wanted to open iDVD; I clicked yes, but nothing happened. I can't find an iDVD application on the hard drive. When I tell it to open the finder, the dvd gets ejected and I get the following message: "Burning the disc failed because this type of CD is not supported"
because the re-store discs didn't work i deleted a bunch of stuff in an effort to delete me personal stuff; now i'm afraid that i've screwed the system up irrevocably. btw, on the surface of the restore disc, it reads: "to start up from this cd, hold down the C key as the computer starts up" dale "In most cases there is no free exercise whatever ... of the moral sense." / "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest."--Henry David Thoreau "I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity."--Bob Dylan Everybody got all the money/Everybody got all the beautiful clothes Everybody got all the flowers/I don't have one single rose I feel a change comin' on"--Bob Dylan, 2009 ________________________________ From: beecaretaker <[email protected]> To: iMac Group <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, October 1, 2009 9:50:34 AM Subject: Re: can't restore On Sep 30, 5:28 pm, Dale Goodvin <[email protected]> wrote: > the restore disc says to press "C" but I tried the option key and did have a > new screen come up: icon of hard drive with an "X" on it; a curved and > straight arrow. Before the system lets me click on either arrow, it again > ejects the disc. Clicking on the curved arrow does nothing; clicking on the > straight arrow caused the system to boot as normal. > > Every system disc I try, even the Applications disc is ejected. To check the > cd drive I put in a normal cd (with photos) and it was fine (appeared on the > desktop, opened when disc icon was clicked). > > ???? > > Dale This sounds like the restore disks are DVD and you only have a CD drive (or a combo drive with a faulty DVD laser), With the Mac booted can it read the disks? if not then it won't boot from them. If the drive is faulty (It sounds as though it probably is) then you can use an external firewire drive (using the option key at boot to select it ) Also are these original restore disks, or 'copies' as a failing drive may have problems with some brands of burned disk. (If you have access to another machine that will read them you could copy them to a better brand of blank if this is the case). Ben. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
