Hi Diane, When you boot up holding down the Option Key, do you see your CD icon in the middle of the screen with a right arrow to the right?
If so: Your procedure is correct. Strongly implies that your hard disk has failed If not: Boot your Mac by holding down the option key immediately upon power up. Keep it held down until you see icons in the middle of your screen. What happened? Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us From: Diane Stinnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:50:03 -0500 To: Mac Group <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Subject: MacGroup: the dreaded blinking question mark My husband's ibook locked up, and when we restarted we get the blinking question mark. We have tried starting up from the CD (running 10.3), but it does not seem to recognize any startup disk. I have tried the 10.0 CD, the 10.1 CD, and the 9.2 CD. I found on Apple how to hold down option at startup and bring up the Startup Manager, but again, it will not read a startup disk. Any other suggestions or do we need to take it on a little trip to MacTown? Thanks in advance Diane | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20031118/3cb65f60/attachment.html
