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  1. iron-lung

    (help) Can you boot from an external cd/dvd drive?

    If you hold down the C key on boot-up this should boot from your disk drives before any OS on a hard drive. If you wanna open the disk drives first hold down the mouse button Good luck
  2. iron-lung

    Replacing / removing Hard drives

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- please help, I believe I have a corrupt HD but it is in the vertical HD cassette at the back of my G4... I know this might sound silly but although I can remove the casette under the disk drives. I don't seem...
  3. iron-lung

    Replacing Hard drives

    please help, I believe I have a corrupt HD but it is in the vertical HD cassette at the back of my G4... I know this might sound silly but although I can remove the casette under the disk drives. I don't seem to be able to remove the vertical cassette even to check it. I would appreciate...
  4. iron-lung

    Spinning rainbow Ball

    Thanks for the response, but I don't know how the jumpers would have altertered as I haven't opened my G4 since the problems occured!!! I will check tonight. Any other ideas why the spinning ball would occur when you click on ANYTHING and then freeze the Finder even without any applications...
  5. iron-lung

    Spinning rainbow Ball

    I'm sorry if this seems a little repetative, I have searched for similar threads which may contain an answer, but nothing I can see is exactly the issue. I have had an ongoing issue with my MAC G4 OSX 10.3.9.. to the point where I have reinstalled OSX and run updates. Before this I did run...
  6. iron-lung

    Display resolution problem!!!

    I have just moved home, and as most of you are probably aware just by simply turning your mac off and packing it up and moving to new location, somehow this means you are subjected to problems and changes when you reboot at the new location. This time I have had my resolution changed...
  7. iron-lung

    Shutdown problems!!!!

    Nice1 BobW... I have a G4 1.25Ghz with 512meg standard RAM which came with machine. I have done 2 fresh installs of OSX 10.3 but have manually archieved my apps and then copied back... I guess I am answering my own question... I have a dodgy app i guess. DOnt think its a hardware issue...
  8. iron-lung

    Shutdown problems!!!!

    Ok people, I have reinstalled OSX twice now and I am still getting this problem where my mac puts itself into some half shut down / half sleep mode. Will the disk utilty still help me rectify this issue??? Or can anybody suggest another alternative.. Also I unfortunately lost some important...
  9. iron-lung

    itunes question ???

    Jason My music library is already on another drive... so all i have to do is copy the preferences ??? and that will replicatate my library after fresh install?
  10. iron-lung

    itunes question ???

    I am about to reinstall OSX 10.3 onto my G4. I have done this before but I am always releuctant to because it means I have to reorganise my whole library into sub folders and retype the names for alot. Now that my music library exceeds 7000 songs this can turn into many hours of...
  11. iron-lung

    dvdr installation problems

    I have just purchased a pioneer DVDR108 for my G4 1.25 (OSX 10.3.7) I have installed the drive in the place of a DVDR104 so straight forward replacement. I rebooted and checked in Toast and the drive is recognised. But when I go to eject the drive it makes a sound, like it wants to come out...
  12. iron-lung

    Loss of Hard disc Space

    OK, Viro thanx for posting link to JDiskReport, D/L and run and it backs up my original calculation that there is 9Gb on there NOT 9Gb left. I have still got roughly 18Gb unaccounted for. How do I now go about locating it, Would it just be easier to wipe / reinstall the drive or could this...
  13. iron-lung

    Loss of Hard disc Space

    I have a friend who is a unix operator and we sat there for 4hrs last night trying to find these "hidden files". I one point I thought it was the Virtual PC I had installed but i think that was down to unix showing the file size in bytes instead of Kbytes. But I have still no idea where my...
  14. iron-lung

    Loss of Hard disc Space

    That is what I am experiencing... this hidden file nonsense (to answer your first question this didn't happen over time, i lost 18Gb off 2 drives in 20 mins!!!) The terminal is the Unix version of the command line... right ? I am not confident enough to go messing with this without the...
  15. iron-lung

    Loss of Hard disc Space

    Although after checking the links it doesn't seem to be the same as my problem. To be more specific: Nothing to do with memory.... I was using DVDBackup and DVD2ONE, I went to drop a copy of the dvd image onto a separate drive, a warning flashed up saying that there was not enough disk space...
  16. iron-lung

    Choices when buying a new DVD-R drive

    Nice one for the advice I'll look into prices now cheers
  17. iron-lung

    Loss of Hard disc Space

    This one is really puzzling me... I checked the amount available on 2 of my HD and it doesn;t match the data size I have calculated on the drive (out by about 10Gb) any ideas ???? I have tried using disk first aid via / disk Utilities but the drive is Mounted and can't repair until unmounted...
  18. iron-lung

    Shutdown problems!!!!

    When I shut my OSX 10.3.5 it will not shut down properly, a blue screen appears with the power button logo in the middle with the message (in multiple languages) "please restart your mac holding down the power button". This is very annoying as I cannot scheduale a shut down now.... pleae...
  19. iron-lung

    Choices when buying a new DVD-R drive

    Please can anyone suggest a good, cheap, fast, compatible dvdr drive for my G4 OSX 1.25G
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