[iBook] NEED HELP! Brand new ibook panther downgrade...

[Larry Kollar]

Robert Sidney Cox III wrote:

> I need some advice.  I was recently in a high-speed car accident,  
> and though I survived unscathed, my much-loved ibook 12" 1GHz did  
> not.  Luckily though, the nice Hitachi SK100 hard drive I had in it  
> seems to be fine. So here is my question:  If I have a professional  
> put this hard drive running OS X Panther into a new ibook 12"  
> 1.33GHz, will it work?

Try this: get a Firewire hard drive enclosure, put the hard drive in  
it, then connect it to the new iBook. See if you can boot from the  
Firewire drive (hold down the Option key at boot-up, I think). If it  
works, just mirror the whole shebang over to the iBook's internal  
drive and use the old one as a scratch or overflow drive.

If you can't get the new iBook to run with Panther, there's always eBay.

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