I went to bed feeling all pleased that the problem was fixed, only to try the next morning and get the click-click-click noise again - yesterday I had to restart the comp 40 times or so from the install disk before it finally gave me my HD as a restart option, and was able to get online again. I have backed up all my files onto an external hard drive, and I did an Easy Install a couple of days ago - this seemed to work for a while - I did it late at night, turned the comp on and off several times and it shut down/opened up fine. so hard to know what's wrong as it doesn't seem to happen every time! On subsequent attempts to start up the machine (after it falling asleep, when waking it up I would get a perpetually spinning mouse icon/all seemed to have hung, so had to restart) the only way I could get it going was using the above method, unfortunately most of the time my volume would not mount as an option t restart from, so was having to restart from the install disk over and over until it did show as an option. ![]() We’ll then use the ‘dscl’ command, which works in all versions of Mac OS X system software. Open the Terminal if you haven’t done so already, either on the local machine you want to list user accounts for, or by connecting to a remote Mac you’d like to see the user accounts on. Via Utilities>Start-Up Disk I managed to select my HD volume to start up from, which took me straight into the computer with no clicking noise. How to List All User Accounts on a Mac from Command Line. I used the install disks to start the machine up, and ran Disk First Aid, which showed no problems on my HD. On the screen a folder containing a question-mark came up, and the computer would not start up. Have had no problems with it whatsoever, until a couple of weeks ago, it went to sleep and when trying to start it up, after the chime noise I could hear a click-click-click noise inside the computer (and a sort of sighing noise then click click-click again. ![]() ![]() I have an early 2006 iMac, running 10.4.11. Hi there, am wondering if anyone can give me advice!
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