Imac Complete Erase

We have an iMac G5, with Tiger, and it seems like the hard drive is dead or dying. ...

My iMac had about 1100 songs on it, mostly ripped from our CDs, but a few purchased from iTunes. ...

Hi everybody, I've been struggling with this for a while now and can't htink of what to do,.... anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this one? I've got a new flat panel iMac, bought new last christmas. It came with the OS installed, only had to intitialise it. It had OS X on there, with Classic. Everything was fine - got some strange e-mail which seemed to corrupt something...

First recognized a problem in late February. The environment: 10.5.2 imac new in Feb 08. 1 gig ram. Airport Extreme. Epson PS820 printer. Cabled mouse and keyboard. DSL Action Tec 701C modem. No exotic software installed, just the Apple standards. iLife, iWork.

'After having a problem with a digital camera on my imac 20", I decided to re-install everything ...', why the shotgun approach? Perhaps, listing the camera's model and the specific problem(s) you are encountering, may produce an answer that does not require the complete re-installation of MacOS X (version ?). Also, since you are re-installing MacOS X (v. ?) - is there really...

on an 600 MHz combo drive iBook, and the interface in OS X is actually noticably faster than on my G4 cube 450 MHz, but I think that's probably because I need to erase my hard drive and do a COMPLETE reinstall on my cube. Nevertheless, people have said that OS X runs decently even on a Rev. ...