eMac no os problem

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eMac no os problem

hello today my copy of tiger stopped working on my emac and my eMac does not have a dvd drive in it so i put it in target disk mode and connected it through my powerbook g4 and it installed succsessfully. Well that is what it said. When I turned on my eMac it displayed a folder with a finder and then to a qestion mark and it kept flashing like that so I rebooted it while holding the t key. It wouldn't boot into target disk mode. My keybnoard is a logitech k120 and the emac is a 1 ghz 512 mb 40gb not dead hard drive. Please help and sorry for bad spelling.

eMac g4 1 ghz-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Mar 10, 2012 4:24 PM

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BDAqua

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Mar 10, 2012 5:07 PM in response to Dbrad475

Does it boot into any of these modes?

Holding Option/alt key at bootup.

Holding SHIFT key at bootup.

Target mode after powering down completley...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

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).

Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

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Mar 10, 2012 5:47 PM in response to BDAqua

no it will not even boot in sing user mode or any of that. I am using a third party keyboard. is that a problem?

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BDAqua

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Mar 10, 2012 6:15 PM in response to Dbrad475

Is it a PC Keyboard, or Mac style?

Might try reseting the PMU, or replacing the PRAM Battery...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3005

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Dbrad475 Author

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Mar 11, 2012 1:36 PM in response to BDAqua

no reseting the pmu didn't do anything and I replaced the battery last month. It is a pc style keyboard.

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BDAqua

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Mar 11, 2012 2:34 PM in response to Dbrad475

OK, on a PC KB usually these keys are different...

Windows key = Command key on Mac

alt key = Option key on Mac.

So Single User mode would likely be Windows+s keys.

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Dbrad475 Author

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Mar 11, 2012 5:31 PM in response to BDAqua

no it would not boot into user mode still

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BDAqua

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Mar 11, 2012 6:36 PM in response to Dbrad475

Put the eMac in Target modeagain.

In Disk Utilty on the PB...

2. Select the eMacs Hard Drive.

3. Click the Erase tab.

4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.

5. Select your Mac OS X volume.

6. Highlight the drive, select Partition Tab, then Format type... MacOS Extended Journalled, select the Security Options button, choose Zero Out Data, Erase... after completion hopefully you'll be able to install.

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Apr 8, 2012 5:31 PM in response to BDAqua

I bought a mac keyboard and it solved the problem.

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BDAqua

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Apr 8, 2012 5:38 PM in response to Dbrad475

Great news, thanks! 🙂

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