[X4U] I repaired our iMac

[Paul Moortgat]

Never thought about that.  The iMac is around 5 year.  Thanks for the advice.

Paul Moortgat


On 18 Aug 2013, at 23:32, Jens Selvig wrote:

> When you used DiskWarrior, I assume you able to start up the iMac from that DVD. If that is the case, I'd be inclined to worry about the condition of her hard drive. How old is the iMac?
> 
> Do you have a back up of the startup drive? If not I'd get one going soon. You can get an external hard drive to use as a startup disk.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
> On Aug 18, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
> 
>> My wife her iMac (10.6.8) went suddenly bananas.  Kept a spinning beach-ball after half way startup.
>> Restarted 3 times cmd-alt-p-r.  Didn't help.
>> Used DiskWarrior.  Didn't help.
>> Started in safe mode and went for the last combo update. (I had that downloaded long ago)
>> Restarted 3 times cmd-alt-p-r.  Was OK now.  I don't now what went wrong.
>> 
>> Paul Moortgat
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> Jens Selvig
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