Recent content by felizgraham

turned on my mac and the stupid drive and firewire port now works - for no reason. i hate computers.

just using 10.3.8 - haven't done any software updates. did try to recover some lost files using norton utilities and some other softwares. will do a complete reinstall of OX 10.3.8 and start a fresh.

also similar problem: my firewire drive just no longer shows up. has worked fine for the past 2 months since i got it. tested the drive on 2 other macs and it works fine. tried an ipod and another firewire drive on my mac and those don't work. they don't show up in the disk utility...

if i put a cd in the i can connect to that, but i can't connect to the harddrive, it doesn't appear in the options to mount. how can i do this!?

Hi, I have an emac with a Lacie 250gb firewire hardrive connected to it. I then have a ibook connected to the eMac by a ethernet connection. I'm using sharepoints software and this has allowed me to look at each of the other mac's hard drives on each mac. I want to be able to access on the...

Maybe it has something to do with the hard drive being filled up and then the files deleted. Perhaps the hard drive needs to be 'cleaned' so that the space the deleted files took up is returned to completely 'empty' ???!!?

how do I do that? and what is it's relevance to the start-up speed?

yes, I emptied the trash.

Hi, I'm running an eMac with the latest os x software upgrades. It used to start up within a few seconds when I first bought it. I then put my design software and files on it - it still started up quickly. However, my girlfriend temporarily stored her video files on my eMac, almost...