The screen is locked on and off center toggle switch is off does anyone have any suggestions
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When you say the only tool available was to restart... do you mean Disk Utility wasn't there?
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at the top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
I also tried safe booting and holding down the options key..
Shift key invokes a "Safe Boot", the Option key should bring up the Boot Options screen where available boot drives are shown.
Do you have another Mac with Firewire around and does this one boot into FireWire target disk mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
If so this Mac will look like a big Firewire drive to the other one, and if the other one is the same OS or higher you can try Disk Utility on the other one to attempt repair of the iMac's drive.
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thank you, I have the adaptors so glad that would work. I just heard adaptors burn out often. So Just thought for my main iMac computer, a plug would be best. I will get one once I move.
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