Sunday morning I lit up the G5 20 inch flatscreen iMac to get the welcoming chime, a turning circle of slashes, and then the turbo of the fans kicking in. Fortunately the Sermon was on the portable.
Should have known something was up. The curtain of death would appear every 3 or 4 days. No fun.
I knew I could fix the thing. Tried to repair the hard drive with a utility program that told me that I had a bigger problem than I expected, but I was still able to copy the drive onto a new drive, swap said drive, reinstall the 10.3 operating system of yesteryear, but all of my personal preferences and applications were left out, and I really don’t know what to do to back get to 10.4 (with all my info, which is backed up but not on the main hard drive) and start working like before, with all my preferences, dictionaries, emails and such just coming up like they should.
I guess I will break down and have to pay somebody to do this, I mean, to get me back to where I was before the system bugged, but I hate doing it. Not just because it costs money, but mainly because when they fix it, I don’t learn how to fix it, and there’s a little bit of expertise that I like having.