MP 1,1-5,1 Help please, Mac will not boot

[kjohansen]

I can diagnose PC issues, but the Mac is little harder.... This morning I got up to my Mac Pro 3,1 displaying a circle with a slash through it. I tried many boots, booted holding the option key and tried booting with the disk and a bootable install dvd Snow Leopard. It keeps coming back to you need to restart your computer by holding the power button and then pressing it again. I put a new disk in but it will not attempt to load Snow Leopard. I should also note I have an Nvidia GTX 960 card, using a display port connection


Ideas?????

 

[kjohansen]

Well I was able to build a bootable usb drive with El Capitan, that let me boot into the disk utility and try and run first aid on the system disk which was not mounted. So looks like a bad system disk. Installing 10.11.6 on the photoshop scratch disk and we will see how that goes.. Thank goodness for having a Macbook Pro

 

[defjam]

Well I was able to build a bootable usb drive with El Capitan, that let me boot into the disk utility and try and run first aid on the system disk which was not mounted. So looks like a bad system disk. Installing 10.11.6 on the photoshop scratch disk and we will see how that goes.. Thank goodness for having a Macbook Pro

It's really not much different than troubleshooting a PC.

 

[kjohansen]

On a bad note after losing the system drive, I can't load Photoshop, because I am on the Creative Cloud, all I get is "Not Compatible" this is a show stopper for me, I need it to do my job... When the system disk went south, so did all my copies of the older versions of Photoshop

 

[thisisnotmyname]

On a bad note after losing the system drive, I can't load Photoshop, because I am on the Creative Cloud, all I get is "Not Compatible" this is a show stopper for me, I need it to do my job... When the system disk went south, so did all my copies of the older versions of Photoshop

This is not the time you want to hear this but backups are important. I'd immediately start using Time Machine so you don't encounter this situation again. Personally I run time machine to two local targets and then replicate them off site.

 

[defjam]

On a bad note after losing the system drive, I can't load Photoshop, because I am on the Creative Cloud, all I get is "Not Compatible" this is a show stopper for me, I need it to do my job... When the system disk went south, so did all my copies of the older versions of Photoshop

This is one reason many people do not wish to use cloud services. Perhaps you can find a copy on Ebay?

 

[kjohansen]

Well Adobe was nice enough to provide links to download previous versions of Photoshop and Bridge. Now if Drobo will give me a download link to get their dashboard... All should be well for a bit..