[Macpartners] spinning wheel

[David M. Templeton]

If the computer will not progress past the boot screen, you may have a  
dead or dying hard drive. I would boot into an OS X install disk and  
open Disk Utility to check the SMART status first.

-Dave
(Sent via mobile)

On Jan 9, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karen M Johnson <karenj at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Anyone have any advice?
>
> I crashed my machine and now all I have is the colored wheel. It  
> does not
> resolve itself. Multiple restarts and a restart resetting pram did  
> nothing.
>
> I needed to work tomorrow. Logging in to another account is the same.
>
> This was not related to an update.
>
> thanks,
> karen
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