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Broken Internal CD-Rom
Name: Brian Date: October 22, 2001 at 11:48:42 Pacific
Comment:
I have a G3-400 Power Book and there is one expansion slot for a DVD or Zip Drive. My DVD drive broke and right now i only have the zip drive available. Does anyone know if i can hook-up an external DVD drive and still be able to boot and restore my system with it? or can i somehow copy the files from the cd to a zip disk and boot from that instead?
Name: the pickle Date: November 14, 2001 at 18:47:55 Pacific
Reply:
You didn't say if you have a Lombard or Pismo (don't worry, most people who aren't Mac geeks don't know the difference either), but if you have a Pismo, you can boot from an external FireWire hard disk or CD unit. If you have a Lombard, you still have SCSI, so you can use an external SCSI CD-ROM drive (or HD) to boot.
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