Recent content by lurice0

Thanks for replying DeltaMac- I re installed os x by recommendation of ex2bot in this exact same thread! It took me like a year to figure out how. I had to get a big external hard drive and partition it, which means to divide it up into sections, which is done through...

im also looking into buying a new matshita drive and installing it myself... I did finally get my external pioneer drive to show up in Disk Utility, but it still did not work. I just want to be clear, my matshita cd dvd drive in my powerbook g4 ejects disks automatically after a minute. I've...

OK it's been almost a whole year but I have finally updated my OS from Tiger to Leopard 10.5.8 on my old Powerbook G4. I did a clean erase and install after learning myself how to partition an external hard drive and after learning how to back up my data using the freeware named carbon copy...

i will re install eventually i guess. I need external hard drive first i guess. I was hoping someone would know what application I may have downloaded that may have confused my mac somehow. Like an app that made a .plist file or something? Because after I re install os x, I will likely...

My Matshita DVD-R UJ-845E does the exact same thing as you describe, so I purchased a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K16M, and it does the same thing as the Matshita!! I can get iTunes and System Profiler to recognize the Pioneer same as the Matshita, but Disk Utility does not see either burner...should...