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marzipanni

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5. It gets stuck partway through verify disk, then the ball spins.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #3)

Sat Apr 16, 2016, 08:40 PM

Apr 2016

I turned it off and chose disk repair, and it does the same. As I said to PJMcK, maybe the disk or disk drive/reader are bad. I'll try polishing the disk.
Thanks for your reply.

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We have a G5 mac from 2008 (?) that starts and has a normal desktop [View all] marzipanni Apr 2016 OP

A couple of thoughts PJMcK Apr 2016 #1

I have tried to start with a OSX (Leopard) disk which is the 10.5 series marzipanni Apr 2016 #4

Try this site PJMcK Apr 2016 #2

The HD is working well enough to boot up ... sounds more like some system files corrupted. eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #3

It gets stuck partway through verify disk, then the ball spins. marzipanni Apr 2016 #5

Yeah, that's not good. Back up everything you can. eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #6