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CD drive won't work & forgot login password
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douglascamera
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Sep 2, 2006, 06:13 AM
 
I have a iMac G4 700 15" LCD, 40 GB HD, 512MB RAM, CD-ROM drive....running OSX Panther. I have forgotten my user password....the machine boots up to the login screen. I tried to put in my Install disc to boot from that, but the CD tray will not open. I restarted and held down the mouse, that forced open the CD tray, but when I put my install CD in, it loaded and I heard it trying to read...but after about 10 seconds it just pops back out. Can anyone help? Is my CD drive gone bad??? Can I boot from an external device? I have an external DVD firewire drive and an older G3 iMac that still works great.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
     
   
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