Blue Screen right after the start up logo

Question

Hi. My first post - I've looked at other blue screen posts on here, but mines I think might be simplier to identify compared to other ones I seen involving flickering off the apple menus etc. (fingers crossed)
Last night I was archiving a lot of mpegs (and other video files archiving through winzip) to save room so that I'd enough room to allow the use of my new Lacie DVD rewriter (as it needs a lot of free space to use) after half an hour of archiving, I decided to watch a DVD instead and was watching on the DVD Player, once I got pretty tired, turned it off via the power instead of actually exiting the DVD player then going to "shut down" (lazyness on my part).....
This afternoon I go to turn on my Mac - I get the "Mac OX" start up with the blue progress bar at the start - no problems there, everything seems to be OK... Then after the Mac start up logo has gone, the whole screen is blue... I can still move around the mouse etc.... I have tried a restart with the command R+P etc... and tried to hold down the "C" button while having the instalation disc in after a restart to use one of the utility check things on the disc but it doesn't seem to even launch the disc.. It just starts as normal with the mac loading logo thing,, then straight onto the blue screen.... I have a lot of CD lists, and a lot of crucial info I need so replacing it isn't really an option although it would be no trouble if I didnt have anything needed on there.. Any help is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I solved the problem yesterday (well a friend of mine did)
1) He started up the Mac Mini WITHOUT the install disc in, and as the Mac OX launch screen came up - he inserted the disc then
2) This allowed the reader to read it at this point (which is more ideal and suited) rather than the start of the power up..
3) You will hear the reader reading the disc, making noise etc. by then you push the "C" button, and the options came up for picking a language, once I did it went on to the usual utilys on the disc 1 installation disc
4) Unfortunatly I re-installed the whole lot (whcih took around 20 mins to complete) which earesed all the data
5) Good thing though was it worked after it, all fresh, and saved me a very high charge of 95.0GBP to fix it, and possibly more for any kind of data retrieval I wished to have saved
ps) it might also work by pushing the "C" without the disc. But the way I was doing it before was that I put the disc in, switched it off, and restarted with having the disc in right away to think it was the more precise way to perform what was needed, however it was not