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just had to reset the nvram in open firmware for future dumba**es

Hi. Me again. D*** it. I just went through the aggravating process of replacing a hard drive on my iBook G4. I put in the system install disk, and went through the installation procedures. When it came time to pick the destination volume, it wasn't there, so I opened up disk utility, which...

Thanks for the tip. Hopefully the dead harddrive won't have an effect, if it does, ill be out of a notebook for a month or two. Thanks again.

Hi. I own an iBook G4 with a hard-drive that has gone to H***. So I'm in the market of looking for harddrives. There are stores near me, that is no problem, but I'm pissed off at the pricing for laptop drives, compared to PC drives. My friend just bought a hard-drive, 200GB, for 160 Canadian...

yes, several times. I tried it after the first time I used the "how-to" and it said there was no problem. I just tried it again for maybe the fifth time, and it says mass storage error.

I can't do any of that, because the hard drive isn't recognized by anything. Disk Utility doesn't see the hard drive. I think I'm going to have to take it to an apple technician, pay him $25 just for him to tell me I need a new hard drive.

Hi. I had the blinking folder problem, followed the how-to's instructions on fixing it in open-firmware and it worked. I changed the startup disk back to OS X in preferences, and then four hours later, my iBook froze again. When I restarted it was back. Now, in open firmware, the trick doesn't...

Is using disk warrior an option, or should I just give up and hand it over to a mac technician?

Hi. My ibook has decided it no longer wants to be nice. It is a iBook G4, @833 with 384 Ram on OS X For the past couple of days, it has been acting funny, slowing down, not letting me run as much stuff. I could sense something was wrong, when I wasn't running any memory intensive...

I've got to say, I was skeptical when I saw the post. I've used the site frequently over the past year, but this was the first time I couldn't find an answer to what I need in the previous post history. I know about the repair permissions approach, but have seen it posted way too often, so that...

Hi. I'm an idiot. I was adding a new user acount on my iBook for my friends to use without having access to my settings, folders etc. I had my system admin account logged in with fast user switch mode enabled. I switched over to the public account, and saw that the hard drive was still on the...