Hi Ronni If you are on an enforced medical break I'm not sure I should be bothering you but you did reply and I thank you for that.
I am using Snow Leopard and as you suggested, have inserted the installation disk into the MacBook and am at the window that says "install". So do I go ahead and re install SL and then find Disk Utility. I'm a bit nervous of going ahead given that SL is already installed. One good thing to come from this is that I now have Mail set up on the Mac Mini and after deleting more than 600 emails it's back to normal! I also get to really use the great little wireless keyboard that has, so far, had very little use. Kind regards Laura OOne gn 23/10/2010, at 3:35 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hi Laura, > > I am still on an enforced medical break from WAMUG. > > I presume you have Held down the power button for 5-10 seconds to putdown the > MB. > After doing the force shutdown you need to Repair the HardDrive. > > What version of the OS X is installed? > Insert the OS X Install disc of the version of the OS X which is installed, > start up from the Install disc by holding down the c key during startup, and > launch Disk Utility to repair the hard drive. > Then start up normally and use Disk Utility on the hard drive to repair > permissions. > You should do this every time you do an emergency shutdown in case the hard > shutdown caused hard drive corruption. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 23/10/2010, at 2:27 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Good afternoon all >> >> I'm hoping someone can help. My MacBook screen has frozen and does not >> respond to anything I try and do. >> >> I've shut down and started up again several times to no avail. Initially >> everything seems OK, normal screen, insert password, >> then the iCal window appears (set up to appear at log in). I had thought >> booting from the external drive might work but >> because the iCal window fills the screen I can't see the exterior drive icon >> (assuming it is there somewhere) >> >> I know there is some way of starting up in safe mode but not sure how to do >> that or even if that might work. >> >> Fortunately I have a MacMini as part of my EyeTV set up so that's what I am >> using to post this call for help. Never thought I >> would need to use it for this purpose. I don't have Mail set up on the Mini >> so am using webmail. >> >> Any advice would be much appreciated. >> >> Regards >> >> Laura >> >> MacBook SL (sorry can't give more specs) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
