[The Officer]

So today in the course of normal surfing I tried to open text edit to copy some text and it wouldn't launch. Then I tried to open another app and it didn't work either so I decided to restart. Now suddenly I can't get past the blue "starting OS X" page.

I tried resetting PRAM and there is no change. fsck says everything seems okay but I still can't boot up. I tried going into target mode and trying to run disk utility or diskwarrior off of a G4 ibook but I can't seem to get into target mode. Safe Mode doesn't seem to work either.

I don't know what to do next.... maybe I need OS X cds to boot from to reset prefs? I don't have them readily available.

It's a Power Mac G4 running OS X (10.4.9). It's a bit of an old and slow system but I haven't had any big issues. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[The Officer]

I don't have an external drive but I can use my girlfriends if it will help. Although I am not sure how it will, it doesn't have an OS on it.

Also, I can see my Mac through our home network and look into my 2 internal drives. On my main drive there is a folder of "damagedfiles"... Is there some way I can do repairs over the network?

(thanks for the welcome HowEver I have read a lot of posts and gotten great info over the years but leave the advice up to all the pros)