[iBook] Asking for advice about a CD Combo drive

[Joe Roberts]

Most any external drive should work.  I would go ahead and get a 2  
layer DVD-RW drive, since they are getting less expensive all the time.

By the way, an internal may not be as expensive as you think.  Tech  
Restore has a pretty good overnight service.  I haven't had a failed  
hard drive myself, but I have heard good things about them.  Parts  
and service are a little over 200 bucks, which is about 75 dollars or  
so above and beyond buying an external drive or an internal drive and  
USB/firewire case.

http://www.techrestore.com/xcart/product.php? 
productid=16259&cat=290&kbid=1028&page=1



On Jun 7, 2006, at 4:01 PM, António Matoso-Ferreira wrote:

> Hei Stephen and all of who tried to help me. My problem lies on the  
> optical drive. What shall I can do know?
>
> To buy a new intern optical drive will cost me a lot. If I buy an  
> external one, what you think? I am very concern about booting. If  
> someday I have the necessity to install again my operating system,  
> can I do that, do I need a special external optical drive?
>
> Thank you very much to all of you
>
> Antonio
>
>
> António Matoso-Ferreira wrote:
>> Hei Stephen:
>>
>> Thanks for your advise. I can see under "ATA" in  System Profiler  
>> I see the optical driver.  I would like to ask you , what I shall  
>> do after starting in safe mode? After switch off the computer can  
>> I start again as usually?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Antonio
>>
>>
>> Stephen Mackenzie wrote:
>>>> What I know is after that I am not able to see any CD  
>>>> applications, DVD, audio CD. I am not able to use optical drive.  
>>>> I have done several things for solving the issue, like reset the  
>>>> PRAM, starting from the original CD, repairing permissions. What  
>>>> I note was that if I put Disc one from the installation software  
>>>> 10.3 I listen some sound like it wants to start, but the  
>>>> starting comes always from the Hard disk.
>>>
>>> António,
>>>
>>> I think your optical drive has failed during the installation of  
>>> the Epson software. If you look in System Profiler under "ATA"  
>>> can you see the drive?
>>>
>>> Another thing to try is to start in Safe Mode "Hold down the  
>>> Shift key immediately after the startup tone, and release when  
>>> you see the progress bar," says Mac help. That will turn off all  
>>> but Apple software, if there is a problem there, your optical  
>>> drive should return.
>>>
>>> Alas, it is probably a problem with the optical drive.
>>>
>>> SM
>>>
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