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Q: stuck on blue screen at start up on iMac 10.6

My iMac is stuck on the blue screen and I can't get past the blue screen at start up.  I've tried pressing the Shift key, Alt key and Command-R at start up and used ran the program disk utility from my old leopard installation disk with no luck. The start up gets stuck at start up.  With the disk utility I verified the permissions and the disk and ran the repair permissions and disk eventhough there were no reported problems.  Any ideas on what to do next before re-installing the operating system again.  I would like to copy some files before I do that step.  Thank you

Posted on Apr 10, 2016 10:11 AM