Thanks for your patience - you are right, it is an old Mac, a desktop grey G3 of 1998 vintage! You may well ask why I am still using it in these days of Tiger etc? The fact is that I have just bought an iMac G5 but it won't connect to the internet - either by USB or Ethernet modems. For this...
Dear Barhar
Many thanks for your reply - sorry I didn't mention the OS, it's system 9.1.
This problem didn't come on suddenly; it's been threatening for about three years. Every so often the drive would flag up an 'unreadable by this Macintosh' message on what was a perfectly healthy...
My inbuilt CD reader fails to read CDs.
On insertion of the disc the mechanism can be heard to spool up but no icon appears on screen.
I have tried re-installing the CD driver and Finder software to no avail. The Mac can be force restarted from a Norton CD so it obviously can see CDs when...