Got Grey Screen and tried to reboot w Snow Leopard
Now, it is telling me that my hard drive is not S.M.A.R.T. compatible. Does this mean that I did not have Snow Leopard installed on that computer? How do I get the Snow Leopard disk out?
Thanks for any help,
Liza
Try holding down the Eject key
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I may have missed something but can't you just put a new hard drive in your laptops? You may not be able to recover your data but it doesn't mean the end for your computer. The same thing happened to my TiBook and I put a new 120Gig hard drive in and it's had a new lease of life.
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