[Ti] Start from FireWire HD?

[David DelMonte]

Lisbeth, if you have access to another mac, restart yours in firewire 
mode (hold down T when booting). Then connect through firewire to the 
other mac. You should then be able to see your old mac - backup your 
files and reinstall the OS, or run diagnostics, or erase the disk and 
start again.

David


On Jan 14, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Lisbeth Zachs wrote:

So now it happened. :-( My Tibook 400 can't find it's HD. At the first 
failing start up it showed the Apple and the rotating "sun" and 
restarted again after what seemed to be a Time Out and then did the 
same all over unsuccesfully. Now it will only show the Apple and look 
perfectly happy with that but without doing anything more and 
eventually I will of course turn it off.

  At the same time my occassionally failing CD/DVD unit decided to go 
totally wrong so I can't use the Hardware Test CD, the Pather Startup 
with DiskUtility nor the Reinstall CD.

  1) Have reset PRAM even if I didn't think it would to much difference.

  2) T-mode connection with an iBook, showed the T correctly on my 
screen but brought the iBook to a holt in its effort to locate (show) 
my HD. (The iBook only on a fresh battery and the moment - would that 
make any difference?)

  3) Thought I had a working System on my iPod, but either it isn't 
working, or I need a better instructions on what keys to use to get 
hold of it.

If I borrow a similar Mac and install a fresh system on an extern 
FireWire, am I likely to have better success or do I have to get hold 
of exactly the same model Tibook to even try? Would it be smarter to 
install such a HD directly in the Tibook?

4) I had to open the Tibook to remove the now stuck CD, and after that 
it will accept a CD again but will not take hold of it correctly and 
start spinning but instead ejects it. (This has been the occasional 
problem before and my "famous" finger pressure in the players centre 
have helped but not now. Have used external DVD-burner ever for reading 
lately.)

5) I am capable of swoping the CD/DVD if somebody suggest an 
instruction link and if I get hold of one cheap :-) (Can't get hold of 
my backup with the good links since the Laptop PC I'm using for 
emergency doesn't have FireWire)

Really appreciate any help. (And yes I'm also looking for a new or used 
PB within my economic reach available here in Sweden) :-)

Lisbeth in Gothenburg

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