[iBook] New, Old iBook - how to access hard drive to change it

Clark Martin cmmac at sonic.net
Wed Feb 8 16:00:53 PST 2006


At 5:00 PM -0500 2/8/06, George wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This is a clamshell Tangerine model, family M2453, @1999. The 
>currently installed hard drive has OSX but an OEM Jaguar install CD 
>cannot repair the drive (which is not mounted or mountable).
>
>How to access the hard drive to change it?

Have you tried reformatting it?  The Apple disk utilities aren't that 
powerful and it's often the case they can't fix a problem 
non-destructively.  But they can reformat which will often fix the 
problem
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

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