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From: "samwalker7 via MacKB.com" <u44
To: All
Subject: Re: Operating system failure
Date:Sat, July 05, 2008 10:36 PM


Got any idea where I could obtain a system disk for this ibook?

nospam wrote:
>> I have picked the icon, clicked on it, and it does nothing. If I hit enter,
>> it goes to another screen with an icon that looks like a 3.5 floppy disk.
>> Inside this icon is a blinking question mark. It stays there for several
>> mintues and then the computer shuts off.
>
>so it's recognizing that the system is bootable (when it puts up the
>icons) but when it tries to boot it fails, so it really isn't bootable
>after all. it sounds like it's corrupted somehow.
>
>you'll need to boot off a system disc to see what exactly is going on,
>and possibly reinstalling the system. it's also could be that there's
>disk corruption which could be fixed, either with apple's disk utility,
>or alsoft's diskwarrior.

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