PowerMac G5 Flashing box with question mark on start up. No start up disc.
Hi, I was intending to sell my Power Mac G5. I have just turned it on and have been greeted with a grey screen and flashing box with a question mark in it. I had wanted to clean the disk before selling. I do not have the start up discs. It's currently operating on 10.5.8. I have borrowed macbook 10.4.9 though with little knowledge of computers i don't know if this will help the matter. I have tried pressing alt on booting up and thisled to 2 options 1 a cruved arrow and 2 arrow pointing right. Could anyone help please?
It's not seeing the Hard Drive, it may be bad.
See if this works at all...
Tough without the Install disc, but some things to try...
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s keys at bootup, if so try...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
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