Problem booting up my imac

[srrincon]

The last time I used my imac I had a picture disc in it and shut it down properly. Now it will not boot up. I get the screen with the apple and the turning wheel and nothing past that. A disc is stuck as well. Any ideas on either, to get me my computer back?

 

[d88co88]

Hold down left click or eject at start up and the disc should pop out. Insert your install DVD and do a repair disc and repair permissions and see if that works.

 

[Mike Macintosh]

Could be the HDD corrupted, I had a similar prob but was able to fix it by sticking in the OS disc and clicking repair disc, luckily I have not had the same
prob since.

So just make sure you have backed up recently, insert your OS install disc and pray that its just a software prob.