Re: Is this normal during a conversion?

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From: Steve Jain (essjae-No_at_Spam-hotmail.com)
Date: 10/19/04


Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:28:47 -0700

Can you move the mouse?

What happens if you press the ctrl+alt+del keys on the keyboard?

Can you boot up in Safe mode and do it?

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:46:31 +0100, Robin Jackson
<robinjackson@mac.com> wrote:

>My converted drive sort of starts up with the normal press control alt
>delete but however many times I select this from the menu nothing happens.
>
>Finally it goes into screen saver.
>
>Looking at Activity Monitor VPC does not really seem to be doing anything
>major only using around 10%-20% CPU????????
>
>I have left it for about 30 minutes and no change.
>
>Robin

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