Need Imac help - Cannot load start up screen

[mackaveli]

Hi guys,

Something is wrong with my HDD.

I don't think it's dead but something to do with the indexing of the HDD.

I can go into target firewire mode and i am backing up my data as we speak. However I do not have a big external HDD that i can back up everything so I have to pick and choose.

I have diskwarrior but it does not boot up. It says cannot find boot hdd or something and shows a No entry sign on the grey loading screen with the spinning gear.

I tried disk utility to repair the HDD but it says it tries three times and fails. Cannot locate the index file. I think this is my main problem here.

If i try and boot in verbose mode it shows this app4mac.com/daemon/ something message and repeats that it cannot locate the file. I dont even know what this is as i've never been to this website.

Anyway I can repair the index file and see if mac os x will boot up? Or you recommend a fresh install?

I just want to boot the mac once so i can look for some files because spotlight wont work since it says its trying to index the macintosh HD from firewire.

any help or tips?

thanks,

 

[Hellhammer]

http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_doesn't_boot