• Have you tried booting up in safe mode? There are a couple of different buttons you can press when starting up. Can't remember what they are, but sure you google them. Think shift was one of them.

    I think i did try to start in safe mode and it didn't seem to want to if i remember, it just etierh carried on as normal or didn't go past safe mode, will try again though

    Further to mr Smyth's post: to start up in target mode, hold down T while the computer boots up (on the g5). Connect another mac via USB or FireWire and the g5 will mount as an external hd. Copy across files and then run disk utility ans select the g5's drive and select repair permissions.

    I will try this when i take home my work laptop, worth a shot definatly, hopefully this will get ti working agian and i can upgrade rather then replace.

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