Mac mini gets stuck in the start-up screen! What do I do? Won't boot up.

Well, I talked my friend into getting a Mac mini, and now it freezes up as the OSX boots up. There appears to be a disc of some sort in the drive, so I can't even put the start-up disc in. What can I do?

Hold the mouse button down as the machine boots, that should kick the disk out of the CDROm. The next step is to just try to reboot again if the system does not boot after kicking out the CD. If you put the OS disc in and hold down the "c " key that should allow you to boot from the OS disc, then search for the utilities folder and repair the disk.

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I have a bit of a problem and would appreciate some help, im not especially good at this stuff.
My Powerpc Mac Mini froze up recently, having left it on for a few days without shutting down/resetting. I impatiently turned it off with the power button at the back. When I turned it on again, it only got as far as the grey apple logo screen, it now refuses to go past this screen despite numerous power resets, and unplugging at the power.
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Once you've got the system booted to the install disk, exit the installer and run the Disk Utility application. That should display the internal drive (and the install disk) on the left. Select the internal drive and then click 'Repair Disk'. If no errors are found, the drive is fine and the problem lies elsewhere. If errors are reported and the disk is fixed, then you should be able to reboot normally afterwards. If errors are found and Disk Utility reports 'error on exit' not having fixed them, then run it again just to be sure, but otherwise it means the drive is damaged sufficiently that Disk Utility can't fix it. A third-party application such as Alsoft's DiskWarrior will then be needed if you want to try and fix the drive and recover data, or you can simply elect to do an erase and install, meaning the drive will be reformatted and a new copy of MacOS installed. Do not do this if you have data you need to get off the drive!!

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Jai141 wrote:
... and im not sure as i brought the phone of someone else.. i will have to ask them
Good Luck.
Jai141 wrote:
Thanks
You're Welcome.

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