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HELP! Key Combination to hold down to get to the utility menu or forceboot from dvd?
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getting gray apple screen with radial loading bar for hours ... any way my data can still be saved? anyone know the key command to force boot? 
(Last edited by Lancer409; Jun 27, 2005 at 01:02 AM.
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Possibly try a verbose start up. Command - v has for some reason worked its magic on me, and it might also tell you where theings are going wrong.
Have you also tried a safe boot by holding shift at start up?
All is not lost yet. 
And being a seasoned professional, you do have back-ups, right? 
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Originally Posted by Ω
Possibly try a verbose start up. Command - v has for some reason worked its magic on me, and it might also tell you where theings are going wrong.
Have you also tried a safe boot by holding shift at start up?
All is not lost yet.
And being a seasoned professional, you do have back-ups, right?
i wish ... =/
do u by chance know the key combination to force it to boot from the dvd drive?
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Pressing option command shift and delete during start-up should allow you to boot from another source according to a page I have in front of me, I thought it was just C, but according to this page (from apple) that is for CD's.
Also X during startup is for a force startup.
This page I printed out about 3 years so whether it is still 100% correct.....
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ah ... c worked. verbose didnt tell me much, just a half page of text that i couldnt decipher much of.
apparently my hdd is jacked.
i reinstalled osx on it. will probly take out my ram, re install osx again, and then into the apple store it goes!
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Originally Posted by Lancer409
ah ... c worked. verbose didnt tell me much, just a half page of text that i couldnt decipher much of.
It is more about where it stops.
What did DU tell you, and do you have DW? Maybe no need for a trip to the store at all, though a more knowledgeable person might breeze through and have a more informed assessment.
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disk utility showed the drive in red. it said it something along the lines of
s.m.a.r.t failed ... something like that. i remember "smart"
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