iMac crashed after OS X Installation! Help!

[Guest_imported]

Me and my pops just upgraded our iMac 266mhz to 160mb of RAM. Then we installed OS X over OS 8.xx+ (forgot the version it was before. It's mainly his) but then as it was installing, it couldn't install a file. So then we rebooted, and says that there's an error reading C: with a blank screen "boot failure." My dad is going crazy. What can we do, we can't go anywhere. Please help!

Danny

 

[Ecaboodle]

Does it say this on the first time you reboot after the install??

Or has the OS system been running for a while? If you can't fix it in 20 call someone who can.

 

[Guest_imported]

The OS X never finished install. It stop after installing when it was about 6 minutes left then it showed and error of not being able to install a file. It had a message of rebooting the system and that What I did. After rebooting the imac showed a blank screen saying "Failure reding C, boot failure".
I'm not sure what happen. It could be possible that the HD crushed?
Can you help?
thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

Can someone help with this dilemna. I'm sure it's pretty easy to do.

 

[kagran]

Did you try restarting from the original CD that came with the machine?

 

[qwertty]

You should be getting a Drive C: Error Mac OS doesn't go by letter name in the first place. Your error should read more like "Error reading from Hard Drive"

 

[DavidSkagit]

Have you partitioned your hard drive? I think that you need to put both the OS X and OS 9.2 systems on the first 8 mbytes partition or less.

 

[macgeneral]

Try restarting with the CD in and hold the "C" key on reboot to boot from the CD-ROM. Do your instaall from there.

Should not be more complex than that.

My understaanding of X is that you need OS 9.2 minimum to run alongside X. What version of X are you working with? (on the CD) 10.1???