ÎHi, I'm having a problem with logging in to my Macbook Pro and hope someone can offer some help. I'll try to be concise here but this is a bit of a long story.
1. For some reason when I turned on my Macbook last week it would not boot up. I hear the startup sound and the apple logo appears on screen but it won't go further. 2. After doing some reading it appeared that the best course of action was to insert the OSX Leopard disk and re-install the OS but not to delete the existing contents of the drive. 3. I inserted the Mac OSX installation disk, turned off the machine and re-started while holding down the C key. 4. The OSX installation began and I was able to re-install everything. 5. The machine re-started after the installation and took mee to the usual log-in screen. The screen shows me as the admin user, has my picture and my name and asks for the password for the account. This is the only account on the machine and I am obviously the admin. 6. I typed in the password that I had before the system had these problems and it would not accept it. I had it reveal the password hint which is exactly the same as previous. I absolutely do remember the password and have used the same one for almost a year now with no problems. I conclude the account still exists because my user account is still showing at log-in. I've tried a couple of solutions here, the most promising seemed to be that you could launch the OSX installation disk again and get to a utilities option rather than installing anything. However, I can't locate a utilities button anywhere. Has this happened to anyone and do you have any suggestions about how to deal with this. Unfortunately, I have some but not all of the contents of this drive backed-up and would seriously rather not end up having to format it. Thanks for any help you can offer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
