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iMac CD drive broke & hard drive crashed
Name: Ashley Date: February 22, 2002 at 20:04:08 Pacific
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As the subject says my moms 233MHZ iMac has crashed and on start up gives the folder with the flashing question mark we all hate, now I would just boot up from the OS disk but the problem is that the CD drive is not working for some reason. If anyone has any suggestions about getting the CD drive back to working order or would care to let me in on how to unlock the OS CD so I can copy it to a disk I would be very grateful.
Name: Ashley Date: February 22, 2002 at 20:05:59 Pacific
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Oh yeah I forgot, it is running OS 9.1 or 9.0.4.
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Response Number 2
Name: the pickle Date: February 22, 2002 at 20:42:43 Pacific
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What happens when you try to boot from the CD that came with it?
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Response Number 3
Name: Ashley Date: February 22, 2002 at 21:06:24 Pacific
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the CD doesn't spin at all
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Response Number 4
Name: fieraci Date: February 23, 2002 at 10:53:46 Pacific
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Replace the CD drive. Then you can boot from the OS install CD and work toward getting it up and running.
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Response Number 5
Name: Durandle Date: February 23, 2002 at 15:00:28 Pacific
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?5t ?+8?????4` ( ?+D?5tthat the CD drive is plugged in still, something may have come lose. If not, you can take the CD drive out and replace it, even only to boot it up, with one from another iMac (if you have more than one)
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Response Number 6
Name: Ashley Date: February 23, 2002 at 17:35:13 Pacific
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I can boot it from a floppy and it works for a while then it crashes again or something and I have to boot it with a floppy again to get it to work. I ran techtool pro but that gave me a message that I couldn't repair anything because I was running it from the hard drive. When I get time I am going to take it apart and check the connections but for now I will keep tweaking with it. Thanks for the suggestions and help.
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Response Number 7
Name: fieraci Date: February 25, 2002 at 16:41:24 Pacific
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Boot your iMac from a floppy? Neat trick. How did you manage to do that?
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