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Installed new HD and after I did the restore of Time Machine with my external HD. On the reboot I keep getting a message saying “You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button until it turns off, then press again.” The screen turns green with a bunch of words and numbers. Some of the words say, Mac OS version: Not yet set. Don’t understand most of it. Don’t know what to do. Everything was going along fine until this. Help,, Thanks Peter
Well, I just got back from the Apple store and they don’t know what the problem is with my iMac and they don’t repair or have parts for computers over 5 years old. They said it could be the logic board or something else that could have been lying dormant until now. Not sure what I’m going to do at this point, but it’s starting to look like new computer time. I feel bad because everything was going great after the install of the new HD. As soon as I completed the restore with my external HD and Time Machine and had to do a reboot that’s when I encountered this problem,which is: the computer will not boot up. It will start up and I hear the chime then I see the Apple logo and the message comes on the screen saying Ineed to restart my computer, hold down the power button,then press the power button again. I tried holding down the C key, then the Option key, then the Shift key and it didn’t work. It’s as if the computer doesn’t recognize the keyboard and as I was trying any of this I inserted my Mac OS X DVD and I can’t eject it frm the computer. So, at this point if anyone has any other ideas please let me know. If not, thanks for all the help. This is a great website. Peter
What version of OS is the Time Machine copy from? If it is 10.7 or later I would start by pressing option when I boot and select the recovery partition. Then I would try disk utility and verify the disk. Once you have either verified the disk is fine or repaired it after being told it was not fine I would repair permissions. If that doesn’t help I would then do a fresh install of the OS and and either restore again, or manually migrate the data from the Time Machine backup. To be honest, I would almost certainly just do a fresh install of the OS myself but that’s a choice and not a necessity to start with. Report back if you have questions or this is not helpful.
