I think my problem is worse than this. The thing is the drive doesn't show up. I think I've got some kind of hard drive spin up issue. I was able to retrieve something on the drive when it spun up when put in an external enclosure but after a while it refused to spin up again. On May 28, 2005, at 8:50 PM, John Azevedo wrote: > On May 27, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote: > > >> What does it mean when you see the flashing OS9 like folder icon >> in the middle of the screen when the machine is booting. >> >> I suspect a hard drive spin up issue but I'm not sure. >> > > Your TiBook doesn't know which drive to boot from. Hold down the > option key for a couple seconds, then choose the drive from the > window that appears (it may take some time for the tibook to look > for drives) then click the arrow. > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >