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<FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Need some help with this one:<BR>
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My sister-in-law has an iMac G4 1.25Ghz 17” LCD USB 2.0 with 10.4.11.<BR>
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The internal DVD-ROM CD-RW died awhile back so she purchased a Sony external DVD-ROM CD-RW USB 2.0 to take its place.<BR>
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Everything was working fine.<BR>
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Recently, she had some bad sectors on her HD (5 yrs old anyhow), so I purchased her a new HD, installed it and while I had the case open, I removed the broken internal DVD-ROM CD-RW. Installed a fresh 10.4.11<BR>
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System profiler can see the USB Sony DVD-ROM CD-RW, but when a disk is installed, or when I open Apple DVD player, it says a disk drive cannot be found.<BR>
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The DVD can be seen on the desktop.<BR>
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System prefs is configured to open Apple DVD player when a DVD is inserted.<BR>
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I hooked the new Sony drive to my setup (iMac G5 2.0) and the drive works fine when I put in a DVD.<BR>
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Would removing the old broken DVD-ROM drive from the G4 cause the new external Sony not to work??<BR>
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Any suggestion? I checked Sony’s site and there is no d/l’s for the drive.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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--Bob Aldridge<BR>
Huntsville, AL</SPAN></FONT>
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