I started up my iBook today and it took me all the way through sign-in to my desktop before giving me a grey overlay with a little box saying that I need to restart. So I did and then it took me to my desktop again before scrolling code across the screen in a very messy, un-mac-like way.
I tried getting into safe boot (restarting and pressing shift from after the tone until the apple and wheel show up) and it just ran the apple and wheel grey start-up screen for a while before kicking back into a normal restart and giving me the earlier results.
So I went and got myself into single-user mode and ran the fsck -yf command. It told me this:
Checking Catalog file
Invalid extent entry
(4, 190)
Volume check failed
Is there any way to fix this, to save my computer? I don't know anything about code or computers. My general mode of operation has been "I bought a /mac/. I shouldn't ever have to look at code." So simple explainations are muchly appreciated.
I tried getting into safe boot (restarting and pressing shift from after the tone until the apple and wheel show up) and it just ran the apple and wheel grey start-up screen for a while before kicking back into a normal restart and giving me the earlier results.
So I went and got myself into single-user mode and ran the fsck -yf command. It told me this:
Checking Catalog file
Invalid extent entry
(4, 190)
Volume check failed
Is there any way to fix this, to save my computer? I don't know anything about code or computers. My general mode of operation has been "I bought a /mac/. I shouldn't ever have to look at code." So simple explainations are muchly appreciated.
