How To Boot An External Hard Drive On An Ibook G4

One of the big selling points for Mac OS X Leopard is that it is a stable operating system that is not prone to crashes, freezes, corrupted or fragmented hard drives, viruses and spyware, or the seemingly inexplicable performance losses typically associated with Windows. ...

hopefully it is in the right section. Anyway, I searched a little and couldn't find an answer. ...

My iBook hard drive suddenly refused to boot up in Fall of '07. ...

SuperDrive, and adding a 512Mb RAM module. After I reassembled the iBook, everything worked fine except the hard drive wouldn't show up on the desktop, in Disk Utility, or in the System Profiler. ...

I have a very similar problem to the person below. I am trying to erase a G4 PowerBook but the Disk Utility Erase tab is grayed out. ...

I am thinking on purchasing the MacMini Duo... the 1.66Ghz model... on Apples site... ...

Thanks for the replies, guys! You are a big help. I really should have backed up my stuff, but the iBook doesn't have a Disk Drive, and I didn't get the "CDR" version. ...

My Mac hardware doesn't seem to want to acknowledge that my burnt OS X install CDs are bootable. ...

To be more specific about my predicament, I currently have a desktop PC and a Mac laptop, but my version of Windows XP has crashed an I am using a Linux boot disk to try and recover the files from the PC internal hard drive. However, I am having trouble getting the Linux OS to recognize my external HDD. ...

Depending on the above info there could be a few different options to try regarding salvaging you files ... ...