Same thing happened to me - power failures and all - and I booted the iMac from the latest Drive Genius DVD and managed to run the Prosoft version of Disk Utilities to correct the info on the internal drive so it would boot up properly.
Mike On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey group > I've got a two year old Imac running snow leopard. > Last night we had some wild weather and lost electricity five times in > several hours. When I booted up the Imac this morning, all I'm getting is > the chime, the apple and a small spinning circle. Jeez I hope it's not > fried. > Any suggestions as to what I might try? > I looked for the original install discs and just realized that none came > with the computer. Is this the norm with the newer Imacs? > I'm sending this on one of my old (2000) green Imac which runs Panther, > and well I might add. I remember that the original soft ware came with it > and all my previous Macs. > > Dave Sheppard > > -- > 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<http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml>and > our netiquette guide is at > http://www.lowendmac.com/**lists/netiquette.shtml<http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > imaclist+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<imaclist%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/imaclist <http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist> > -- 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] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
