subject: How To Resolve stop 0x0000000a Error In Microsoft Windows [print this page] Leopard graphic updates are installed for achieving better stability and compatibility results for the system. But at times, installing these updates might cause several issues to the system. Your Leopard computer may start behaving slowly at boot time or even fail completely. The situations get worse if the disk stores important data and you cannot access it because of boot failure. The following reading suggests you few methods that you can apply to try solving this behavior.
But if it fails, you should reinstall the system completely and apply your backup to restore data. When no valid data backup is available, you are recommended to use an efficient Mac Recovery Software to scan and recover data from the crashed disk.
To illustrate, consider you use a Leopard based computer system. You install and apply Leopard Graphic Update, for say GFX Update. The next time when you boot the computer, it shows one of the following symptoms:
A gray screen appears with an Apple logo and it fails to boot further
A blue screen appears for some time and then sleeps
Cause
The update has corrupted the disk permissions or drive. However, there can be other reasons, such as PRAM or PMU related issues or bad preferences, as well.
Solution
Following solutions can help you recovering from these boot issues:
Boot the computer by holding Shift to start the computer in Safe mode. You can then delete the bad preference files
If the above measures doesn't work, repair the disk permissions and use terminal to bless the system as:
bless -device /dev/diskXsY -setBoot -verbose (where, diskXsY refers to the drive name)
Boot the computer using installation disc and run fsck to repair the drive
Try to reset PRAM and PMU units
Reinstall the system and restore from the last Time Machine or other backup
In case of backup unavailability, you can use Mac Recovery Software tools to restore data. These Mac Recovery Software work more efficiently if applied before formatting the disk. Embedded with easy-to-implement interface, these tools can be used with even no prior technical skills.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is a powerful tool with graphically rich interface and strong recovery capabilities to recover lost or missing data. It is a safe-to-use Mac File Recovery utility providing quality features to scan, locate and restore lost data safely. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger and 10.3.9 Panther.
