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Offline macka

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No Disks showing in Startup manager
« on: May 19, 2003, 03:51:04 AM »
I have the flashing question mark on startup on my imac, nothing starts, when I load startup manager, no disk are shown, I dont have any Mac OS disks either, has anyone got any ideas...thanks in advnace

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No Disks showing in Startup manager
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2003, 04:49:13 AM »
QUOTE(macka @ May 19 2003, 4:51 AM)
I have the flashing question mark on startup on my imac, nothing starts, when I load startup manager, no disk are shown, I dont have any Mac OS disks either, has anyone got any ideas...thanks in advnace

 Which iMac? Which OS?

Startup manager?

Do you have an OS9 or OSX CD? What about DiskWarrior?

I would start up from one of those CD's..probably OS9 or DiskWarrior and see if you can fix it using that.

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No Disks showing in Startup manager
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2003, 10:49:20 AM »
macka. Welcome to the Forum. smile.gif

Yes. It's very important to know which machine and OS.

Could just be a bad PRAM Battery.

Get back to us. smile.gif
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