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<FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>See <FONT COLOR="#FF0000">red below<BR>
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Janice F. Jorgensen<BR>
150 River Drive<BR>
Hadley, MA 01035 <BR>
413-585-0145<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> From: "Mary H." <maryh@brucetelecom.com><BR>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers." <BR>
> <ibook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com><BR>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:43:08 -0400<BR>
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers." <BR>
> <ibook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com><BR>
> Subject: Re: [iBook] external firewire CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive<BR>
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> At 2:18 PM -0400 7/30/07, Janice F. Jorgensen wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000">>> Got firmware password removed.<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> <BR>
> Great.<BR>
> <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000">>> Followed the instructions..and attached the firewire cable to both...<BR>
>> The Ibook (without the DVD drive) shows a flashing world<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> <BR>
> Hmmm, disconnect the FireWire cable from both Macs, for now. (The <BR>
> flashing globe tells us that your iBook is set to "Network Disk" for <BR>
> startup.) I've just reviewed your previous posts and am reminded that <BR>
> you have no OS on the hard drive of the iBook - it's empty - correct?<BR>
> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">not really empty as it has parts of the install disk..but it won’t boot to it.<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> If that's the case, the flashing globe should change to a flashing <BR>
> folder icon with a question mark after a few minits, and then remain <BR>
> that way. Does this happen? If something else happens instead, <BR>
> describe it.<BR>
> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">yes this is what happens it changes to the flashing folder icon with ?<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000">>> If I plug in the firewire cable to ibook and macbook..i see the drive..etc<BR>
>> and its files. <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> <BR>
> Sorry, I'm having trouble following this. I don't understand what <BR>
> drive you are seeing or where you are seeing it. I'll wait to hear <BR>
> your answers to the questions I've just asked. <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">If I just plug in the firewire cable to macbook and ibook.. I can see the ibook hd on the macbook... And that is when I see the the parts of the osx..from before....<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000">>> I had been able to start new and install some of the osx<BR>
>> before the dvd drive became unusuable. The dvd drive quit in the languages.<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> <BR>
> I don't know what you mean by this. I'll take a guess. You are <BR>
> referring to a much earlier time - a time when you attempted to <BR>
> install OS X on the iBook - and it was then that you found the <BR>
> optical drive to be defective. Correct? Or maybe you mean something <BR>
> else?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"> Correct. <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> <BR>
> M<BR>
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