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Hi, thanks for the reply. I can see you know what you are talking about. I went to disk utility to run repair permissions but the only disk it shows is my hard disk. Should I run it on this? Please excuse me if this is a numb question but I have only recently switched from PC and I don't...

Mine was doing that so I backed everything up and re-formatted it in disk utility which did the trick. I then dragged everything back into it and its fine now. I used the DOS format option after all the others failed to make any difference.

More and more often now when I am opening a new web page the scroll bar on the right gets stuck at the bottom and the application crashes. I have to force quit and when I do the computer makes an annoying series of wierd blippy noises until I restart it. I'm new to macs so can anyone tell me...

I tried it one last time before I returned it and it worked. Wierd. Been fine ever since.

Yeah I did, its definately the same specs as the memory that apple sell and half the price but I read somewhere that apple dont condone the use of non-official RAM but I dont know if thats because its harmful to the machine or because they want you to buy theirs. Ricky

I bought a 512Mb RAM module from cruicial and fit it easily into my new imac but the computer does not detect it. Is it because I should have bought official apple memory or what? The specs of the memory are exactly as outlined on apple.com. Can anyone point me in the right direction? and yes...

I have managed to format the disc using disc utilities. I selected the option Mac OS extended (jornaled). Now the disc cannot even be read by the computer and when I go to first aid it says cannot run due to error. Does anyone know how to rescue this disc? All help would be...

Thanks, I seem to be getting somewhere now. When I select the disc in utilities it only brings up the MS-DOS under erase and cannot be changed. I'm a little confused though because it shows the external disc twice on the left and it only lets you change the formatting options for one of...

If I bring up the info for the external drive it does say 'read only' under permissions. It doesn't let me change that though. I am new to macs, how do I format using the Disc utility? Cheers, Ricky

Hi, I have just purchased an iMac G5 and when I plug the external hard drive caddy that I used to back up iTunes and music on my PC my mac will not allow me to modify it. I can get files from the external drive onto the mac but I cannot back up files I download from the mac onto the drive. It...