Computer not able to start up ........please help

Question

I was listening to my itunes this morning and everything was going fine and my windows had done it update and was giving me the restart now or restart later option and i clicked restart later. All of a sudden the itunes help box started popping up and I would close it and it kept opening up again and again. I tried to shut down my computer to do a restart and because the help box would not end the computer would not shut down. I finally had to manually shut it down and when I started it back up it started beeping and would not open up properly or basically would not open up at all, would not let me open the start menu, norton, nothing. The only thing different I had done with my itunes was tried to burn a cd last night and i got the error 4450 (which I have already read the support threads on that issue) and used the help box to try and find out what was causing it.
Has anyone had this happen?
If so, what did you have to do?
Thanks,
Tngolfgoddess

Answer 1

Since you have the original disks out, try repairing the volume:
The first thing to do would be to boot from the Install & Restore disc that came with your machine by:
1. Inserting the disc, pressing the power button, and immediately after the startup chime, press and hold the C key until you see the spinning gear icon appear on the grey splash screen.
2. After the machine has booted, pick your language, and when the Installer window appears, do not press Continue, but go to the Utilities menu in the menubar and open Disk Utility.
3. In Disk Utility, choose your normal startup volume in the pane on the left and then click Repair Disk. If any errors show in the window, run Repair Disk again until you see 'The volume appears to be OK' in green.
4. Quit Disk Utility, quit the installer and attempt to restart into your regular startup volume.
Great Alias btw!
Joe