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i would try holding down option also at boot (wired keyboard of course) and see if it will load anything drive wise (with the restore CD/DVD in) and it should pull up the option of what drive to boot from - if it does not pull this up then for some reason its not detecting any suitable boot drives in this case i would go into the open firmware and check things in there...<br />
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i would try holding down option also at boot (wired keyboard of course) and see if it will load anything drive wise (with the restore CD/DVD in) and it should pull up the option of what drive to boot from - if it does not pull this up then for some reason its not detecting any suitable boot drives in this case i would go into the open firmware and check things in there...





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I have an Imac G5 that will not boot. I get the flashing folder with a question mark on it. I ran the hardware tests and the extended came up with what I assume is a Hard Drive error (2 STF/8/3: S-ATA Bus0 Master). I am just trying to confirm that this is a hard drive problem that requires a HD replacement..
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I have an Imac G5 that will not boot. I get the flashing folder with a question mark on it. I ran the hardware tests and the extended came up with what I assume is a Hard Drive error (2 STF/8/3: S-ATA Bus0 Master). I am just trying to confirm that this is a hard drive problem that requires a HD replacement..

Imac Problem - System will not boot from Satrtup restore disks

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