[G4] trying to extract data

[Jamie Pruden]

Hi Valerie,

If the QuickSilver can still boot, you can start it up with the "t" key 
held down... this will boot the machine as a firewire drive. Plug it 
into your new machine and you can copy stuff off it with little 
difficulty.

smiles,
Jamie

On Sep 14, 2004, at 3:58 PM, Valerie Maples wrote:

> I hope someone here can help me.  My daughter has a Quicksilver G4 
> that was bought for her by Make-A-Wish almost three years ago.  She is 
> terminally ill and basically confined to bed, so her computer is her 
> lifeline.  She watches many movies a day on it as well as doing her 
> homebound schoolwork.  After replacing the hard drive once and the 
> SuperDrive twice and eventually even the logic board and processor, 
> Apple has agreed to give her new computer.  We are extremely grateful, 
> but we are trying to find a way to pull off her most recent work from 
> the hard drive.  I don't know if it will be possible since the 
> computer will not successfully been to try and plays this hard drive 
> in the G3 we have here or if I can even take a second hard drive.  I 
> was also wondering if ZIP 250 from this computer can be run in either 
> the older G3 or the new G5.
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> Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated!
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> Valerie Maples
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> Tupelo, Mississippi
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