06-02-2014, 10:02 PM
Yes, I admit it, I am the stupidist person in the world. Bear with me, it's a bit of a story.
I needed a pre-OSX 10.5 machine to run an old HP printer.
I borrowed my friends iBook OSX 10.4.11
I installed Photoshop and started to work. Finally got the printer to print.
I wanted to import some art using Gmail. It wouldn't do it, needed a more up to date version of Safari.
I start downloading, then installing a newer version.
This is where I went wrong, I had Photoshop open so I started working...tried to open some art from a thumb drive I had in a USB port.
Everything slows to a crawl, I forsce quit the installer, it hangs up. I think I'll force quit, restart and be on my way.
Nope, restarts, chimes, Apple logo, start up little graph thing loads...then nothing just a blue screen of the background, no icons, nothing else.
I put an install disc in to try and run disc utilities, restart pressing the C key, get a bunch code, including "kernel" and something about can't find something.
Tried a safe start, it comes up, asks me to log in...and it's been running for 1/2 hour, just showing the blure background screen.
I'm going crazy, have a I screwed my friends computer up or is there a fix I'm missing.
I have a spare hard drive and my Mini is right next to it, if either of those things will help. No alternate OS on the spare HD though.
Help!
I needed a pre-OSX 10.5 machine to run an old HP printer.
I borrowed my friends iBook OSX 10.4.11
I installed Photoshop and started to work. Finally got the printer to print.
I wanted to import some art using Gmail. It wouldn't do it, needed a more up to date version of Safari.
I start downloading, then installing a newer version.
This is where I went wrong, I had Photoshop open so I started working...tried to open some art from a thumb drive I had in a USB port.
Everything slows to a crawl, I forsce quit the installer, it hangs up. I think I'll force quit, restart and be on my way.
Nope, restarts, chimes, Apple logo, start up little graph thing loads...then nothing just a blue screen of the background, no icons, nothing else.
I put an install disc in to try and run disc utilities, restart pressing the C key, get a bunch code, including "kernel" and something about can't find something.
Tried a safe start, it comes up, asks me to log in...and it's been running for 1/2 hour, just showing the blure background screen.
I'm going crazy, have a I screwed my friends computer up or is there a fix I'm missing.
I have a spare hard drive and my Mini is right next to it, if either of those things will help. No alternate OS on the spare HD though.
Help!