Hello all,
My iMac was running slow after a short power cut. I tried disconnecting some external hard drives but the problem consisted. I run he Disk Utility, Verify... it found some problems on my Startup Disk and adviced me to Repair the Disk by inserting the DVD and run Disk Utility from there. This I cannot do as my DVD driver is broken and does not read anything.
I restarted in Safe Mode and run the Disk Utility
Then I tried to erase empty space of aprox 200GB(god knows why). I did the quick version of this action. After about an hour the progress bar did not move at all plus I was geting messages that there is no empty space on my startup disk.
So I tried t skip but the procedure wouldn't stop.
So I force quit, but then I am left with no empty space on my Disk, literally 0KB available. I started looking for the temporary file to delete it, meanwhile I did create some empty space by deleting some temporary files.
I then tried to restart...but I CAN"T. The white screen appears plus a bottom progress bar, as if I'm starting in Safe Mode again, then the iMac shuts down on itself.
I realise this is because of the lack of empty space, or the fact that indeed my startup disk is corrupted...or both
The current situation is that I am unable to start my iMac and I cannot do any work. Remember that my DVD driver does not read any DVD's or CD's.
Is there any way that I can fix this on my own, or should I go for professional help?
I operate Snow Leopard 10.6.8, have 1TB Hd for a startup and 16GB of Memory RAM
thank you all in advance
My iMac was running slow after a short power cut. I tried disconnecting some external hard drives but the problem consisted. I run he Disk Utility, Verify... it found some problems on my Startup Disk and adviced me to Repair the Disk by inserting the DVD and run Disk Utility from there. This I cannot do as my DVD driver is broken and does not read anything.
I restarted in Safe Mode and run the Disk Utility
Then I tried to erase empty space of aprox 200GB(god knows why). I did the quick version of this action. After about an hour the progress bar did not move at all plus I was geting messages that there is no empty space on my startup disk.
So I tried t skip but the procedure wouldn't stop.
So I force quit, but then I am left with no empty space on my Disk, literally 0KB available. I started looking for the temporary file to delete it, meanwhile I did create some empty space by deleting some temporary files.
I then tried to restart...but I CAN"T. The white screen appears plus a bottom progress bar, as if I'm starting in Safe Mode again, then the iMac shuts down on itself.
I realise this is because of the lack of empty space, or the fact that indeed my startup disk is corrupted...or both
The current situation is that I am unable to start my iMac and I cannot do any work. Remember that my DVD driver does not read any DVD's or CD's.
Is there any way that I can fix this on my own, or should I go for professional help?
I operate Snow Leopard 10.6.8, have 1TB Hd for a startup and 16GB of Memory RAM
thank you all in advance
