[Buggedsee]

Hello to all the MyDellMini forum legends.

I purchased my Dell Mini 10v 1 year ago, installed OS 10.6.3 on it and have had success updating to OS 10.6.4

I left it there as I got a MacBook in the mean time (due to the MacMini)

Over the year I gathered a lot of information on the MacMini and I set up a home network to transfer the files to the MacBook.

During this transfer the MacBook and the MacMini stopped transferring for about 3 minutes and then the MacMini ran really at a snails pace. I thought it to be due to overheating, so I switched it off, thinking I will continue the next day.

Here endith the joy.

It has been two weeks and with my little knowledge on the true workings of the MAC OS, I have not been able to get the MacMini back to life.

It starts up, displays the apple logo and the circle beneath it (timer) never stops.
I have tried safe boot, command strings and the like.

I give up. What I would like to do is retrieve the data from the MacMini if possible. It is not a must, but a "would like"

Do any of you have any wisdom on how I can retrieve the data from the MacMini without removing the drive?

Thanks in advance and apologies for the wall of text.

[pcmaniac]

Boot your mini from (any) live Linux USB. Mount your Mac OS X drive to filesystem. The drive will be read-only but you should not care. Copy your data to another USB drive or over the network to your mac running samba (Windows file sharing). Wired network is no-brainer even you just connect your mac and mini with twisted pair cable without a router at all. Wireless might be little tricky but this driver Broadcom.com - 802.11 Linux STA driver works for my wifi on Mint.

[Buggedsee]

Thanks pcmaniac.

I will give this a try.