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dead iBook HD

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Claris:
Just buy a 60gb drive and stick it in there. It's much more reasonable cost-wise, and it's not difficult to do. My old man did it on my sister's book.

Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:
Claris,

already did it. it had been acting up lately, and I was running OS 9 at the time, and I tried to restart to OS X and it didn't show up in Startup Disk, and it wouldn't work when I booted holding down x.

so I firewired all my stuff over to my iMac in preparation to format and reinstall OS X.

I reinstalled, and restarted... X wouldn't start... after a few more reboots, the drive just quit.

and Panos, mine is also a fall 01 600 MHz. it's been well taken care of for the year that I've had it, but I'm the second owner. I also use it an awful lot. I've only got 384MB in it... when I replace the drive, I'll upgrade the RAM as well to cut down on drive grinding.

I'm still sad about it

oh well... I'll manage to get a replacement.

I might just save up $400 and let Powerbook ResQ handle it all, and let em throw a 512MB stick in it while they've got it open.
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Well, mine is dead for sure but in any case I am thinking of saving up a bit, exchange this one and get an iMac or eMac since I already have another portable.

In any case, I am missing my iBook terribly as I used to use it 98% of my time   :(  Oh well. As I read in an article on a related issue:

"There are 2 types of computer users out there. Those who have had an HD failure and those that will."

I guess we both fall in the same category now.   :(

hm_murdock:
yeah

oh well. shit happens.

Mynameiscoolerthanyours:
You could go to the apple store and use network startup then copy the mac os data
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hm_murdock:
yes. you could. you could copy it.

where would you copy it to or from? seeing that there's a non-functioning HD inside it, you can't put it on or get it off the iBook.

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