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wolf123
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OS 10.3 will not start - 2006/08/13 21:40 I have an imac 600mh running 9.2.2 and 10.3 on a non partitioned H/D. My 7 & 8 year old nephews were playing some game on OSX (unsupervsed, yes I know really dumb). They claimed they shut the system down, when my wife got on this morning the computer booted up but all she got was a gray screen, & the apple logo, no little thing going around under the apple. She waited 15 min and called me. I used the 9.2.2 installation disk to boot up, changed the start up disk & booted to 9.2.2. ran disk first aid, reset the desk top files & tried to boot to 10.3. same problem. Any suggestions? If I reinstall 10.3 on top of the 10.3 that is on the disk will I cause more problems? I am new to OSX, I know I can do a clean install in OS9, is there a way to do it in OSX?

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Cacicedo
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Re:OS 10.3 will not start - 2006/08/14 01:07 If you have an X-friendly version of DiskWarrior, I'd try that before you do a reinstallation of the system. OS X will certainly allow you to do the equivalent of a clean install. It's called Archive and Install, and you get to it in an early window of the installation process if you click on Options.

edit: By the way, to avoid a similar problem in the future, you can set up a second user account with limited security permissions. Password protect your own admin account, and when youngsters say they want to use your machine, have them boot into the other account. In Tiger you can even do it with quick user switching, which makes life even easier.

Post edited by: Cacicedo, at: 2006/08/14 01:09

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wolf123
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Re:OS 10.3 will not start - 2006/08/14 16:24 Thanks, I'll try it this weekend.

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