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I can only offer the obvious - have you tried booting from a CD? Also, Macs still come with a hardware diagnostic CD that you boot into, right?
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Stops at the grey screen with the apple and the progress wheel.
My fave is the folder icon with the question mark on it.
Has anybody with sufficient RAM tried Tunebite for bypassing DRM on video? It costs $30, but it's legal because it doesn't actually remove the DRM, just creates a new copy via live playback, or so I understand it.
ita, when I had the same problem, I was able to get past it by booting into single-user mode and running fsck, as detailed here: [link] . It wasn't my mac's most fun day, but better than letting the geniuses tell me that the whole drive was hosed.
You can try booting off CD, but when that happened to me, my computer was hosed. However, the geniuses were able to hook up another drive, boot off that, and save my stuff, so there was that, at least.
Okay, thanks. And I even know where my disk is, because I had to use it recently to install X Windows.
MLB shut down the DRM server because they've changed suppliers, and now they expect suckers to buy downloads of games in the new DRM format.
I have three games I purchased from MLB, so I suppose I'm screwed, too.
eta: Yup. My files are hosed.
tunebite?
tunebite: bypasses the DRM on music files from places like iTunes so you can do things like burn it more than the allowed number or play it in other players (or if you're me, edit them). Also does video, but I'm guessing a faster computer is necessary. But it would be supernice because other than my nefarious purposes, I hate that iTunes limits me on how and where I can play the episodes I bought from them. I can buy and burn a cd, but it won't allow me to buy and then burn a DVD. And I'm not buying the apple TV thing.
I can buy and burn a cd, but it won't allow me to buy and then burn a DVD. And I'm not buying the apple TV thing.
What I do, and what preserves tag information is to burn them to CD, and then reimport them. You lose ratings and some of the fancier tag stuff, but your CDDB info stays intact.
I always burn music to CD and then rip them to remove the DRM. It's decently practical with RW CD-ROMs. It makes listening and moving music to my player or CD for my car much easier.
Actually since I don't buy a lot of music, I'm kinda moving back to the buying used CDs instead of downloading. It's just easier and I have a hard copy stowed away in case I lose the files for some reason.