hard drive is full and OS X will not load

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skodog51478

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Feb 1, 2007

• #1

Can someone help me out?? Whenever I turn on my computer I get the flashing question mark. I inserted my startup CD and I was going to archive and load an older version of OS X. I then realized it would not let me proceed because I only have 385 mb left on my hard drive and I need at least 2 gb. What should I do?

 

thejadedmonkey

macrumors G3

• Feb 1, 2007

• #2

Get a live linux distro and try booting off that and deleting some files? that's all I can think of.. or maybe someone could walk you through a command line fix..

 

Lovesong

macrumors 65816

• Feb 1, 2007

• #3

Do you have access to another Mac? You can start it in target mode.

 

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skodog51478

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Feb 1, 2007

• #4

I will have to try the target mode tomorrow since I don't have a firewire cable here. Thanks!!

 

Lovesong

macrumors 65816

• Feb 1, 2007

• #5

skodog51478 said:

I will have to try the target mode tomorrow since I don't have a firewire cable here. Thanks!!

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Just boot up holding "t" right now. If you get the little FW logo, you should be good. Tomorrow you can transfer enough stuff off it to get OSX back.

 

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skodog51478

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Feb 1, 2007

• #6

Yep it looks like it will work. Thanks again for your help!!🙂