Tiger 10.4 Woes . . .

DarkShadow · 4 Dec 2006 at 12:03

Last night I was on Tiger for a minute or 2 to check something, once in desktop mode, I held onto the power button on my macbook to shutdown the MB.

Now Tiger is refusing to boot up :rolleyes:

. Windoez to the rescue :/

Whenever I boot up I get the grey screen then a folder with a question mark. Soon after it boots up into windows.

Ive tried holding down Shift and then X but still no luck. I have a fir amount of important uni work to recover.

Hoiw on earth did this occur? Secondly, how the hell do I recover the OS without repair & archive.

Cheers.

Moredhel · 4 Dec 2006 at 14:24

You're not supposed to turn it off by holding down the power unless something like a kernel panic has happened and you can't use the OS. It's the equivilent of pulling the power cable out of a PC when it's turned on. You've probably corrupted a file OSX needs.

At least you've got all your uni work backed up in several other places, right? Of course you have!

ic1male · 4 Dec 2006 at 14:30

Would something like Tech Tool Pro or Disk Warrior be able to sort it out? They both have mini Mac OS X installs on a bootable DVD with rescue and recovery programs?

toosepin · 4 Dec 2006 at 14:40

If you reinstall OSX doing an archive+install then you will recover your files. Settings and stuff may be lost but apps and files should be fine.

P Bo · 4 Dec 2006 at 18:24

I never knew about the Power button thing. Damn I've done that for ages.

E1mo · 4 Dec 2006 at 18:34

Holding down the power button until it turns off is a hard power off, a bit like when your ATX PC has a kernel panic and you need to press the reset button.

deano · 4 Dec 2006 at 20:17

turn it into target disk mode, hold down the "T" button while booting, will then be a firewire drive. Your obliviously need another machine equipped with firewire to get your data off.

cheers
deano

DarkShadow · 5 Dec 2006 at 01:43

Moredhel said:
At least you've got all your uni work backed up in several other places, right? Of course you have!

I've now done an archive and install. No doubt I'll be making 4 backups or so

Moredhel said:
You're not supposed to turn it off by holding down the power unless something like a kernel panic has happened and you can't use the OS. It's the equivilent of pulling the power cable out of a PC when it's turned on.

XP hasn't b0rked on me in such a manner