HELP! STUCK ON START-UP SCREEN

I was backing up all of my pics on a flash drive, and the next time i turned on my mac mini, it was stuck on the initial start up screen with the gray apple and the revolving pinwheel type icon. I let it sit on that screen for a while and nothing happened. So i let it sit off for a few hours and when i turned it on again i got the same problem. So from my iPod i searched for solutions that seemed similar to my problem (i was told to do the processes of holding down the power button while inserting the power cord, holding down the option key at start up and the hold down the command-option-p-r keys during start up) Any help or suggestions would be appreciated

If you have the mini's original install disk (the one it came with), insert that in the optical drive, and reboot the system with the C key held down. This should result in the system booting to the installer rather than the hard drive. You'll need a wired, USB, keyboard for this, and only the original install disk from the system, or a full retail copy of MacOS 10.4 or 10.5.
If the system doesn't boot to the install disk, and it is known to be the original that came with the mini (or retail Tiger or Leopard), then like the first poster, you may well have a hardware fault. To be sure, reboot but this time with the Option key (ALT on Windows keyboards) held down to put the system into the boot loader screen, where after a delay of a couple of minutes, it should show you the available MacOS volumes it could boot from. Likely this would only be the install disk since the internal drive may well be corrupt. However, selecting the install disk should allow you to boot to it from there.
Assuming you manage to get the system booted to the install disk, don't run the installer itself. Pull down the Utilities menu and select Disk Utility. On the left it should show both the install disk and the internal drive. Select the internal drive and then click the 'repair disk' button. This will check the internal drive and attempt to repair any problems. If it finds any problems and reports 'error on exit', indicating it wasn't able to resolve them, click repair disk once again (sometimes two goes works when one doesn't). If you still get the same result, you will either need to use a third-party utility such as Alsoft's DiskWarrior to try and repair the drive, or you will likely need to reformat and reinstall the system. Beware that doing the latter will cause any data to be lost, so should not be attempted until you have either recovered and backed up your data, or you have decided to erase everything anyway.

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I also suggest you try other advanced boot options such as Using Last Known Good Configuration, see this link
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