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mac mini is back to life

By Truman Boyes · · 1 min read

The PPC mac mini was stuck at the blue screen with the spinning wheel; and after attempting a few reboots it required the disk utility from the OS X boot disk. First step, needed to eject a DVD that was already in the drive: holding down the left mouse button on boot caused the disk to eject; then it was just down to the Disk Utility to clean up the problems on the hard drive.

Once it was fixed up, the PPC mac mini was back in action. Since we are lugging this little guy back to the states for a bit, I am glad its working again.

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