Ahah! Bruce - I hadn't spotted its age! Sounds like a case for a FW target drive restart to a FW disk or another Mac?
Colin Sent from Colin Y's iPhone > On 11 Apr 2017, at 09:51, [email protected] wrote: > > > [email protected] Google Groups > Topic digest > View all topics > Digest for [email protected] - 3 updates in 1 topic - 2 Updates > Digest for [email protected] - 3 updates in 1 topic > Colin P D Yarwood <[email protected]>: Apr 10 01:39PM +0200 > > Why not start holding down Ctrl+R > > This should start you on a web based system and enable you to use Disk > Utility from the web unless your Resident OS is very old? Then you can > install a new version of your OS from the web and all will be well if your > had isn't damaged. > > Good luck > > Colin Y in UK - our iMac was our 16th consecutive Apple since 1977 and we > love it and most of its predecessors still😉 > Sent from Colin Y's iPhone > > "Bruce Johnson" <[email protected]>: Apr 10 04:02PM > > > On Apr 10, 2017, at 4:39 AM, Colin P D Yarwood <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Why not start holding down Ctrl+R > > > This should start you on a web based system and enable you to use Disk > > Utility from the web unless your Resident OS is very old? Then you can > > install a new version of your OS from the web and all will be well if your > > had isn't damaged. > > I don’t believe that was available until OS 10.7; this is a G4 iMac; the > latest OS it can run is 10.5. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > Back to top > You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. > You can change your settings on the group membership page. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an > email to [email protected]. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
