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Hello all :). I am trying to figure out how to get my employer's Mac PowerPC back up and running. It intermittently starts up fine, but most of the time when you boot it up - the only thing that appears is first a little computer with a smiley face in the center, which within a few minutes turns to a disk icon with a question mark in the cente.r Occasionally it will start up - no problem, but lately we can not get it past the little question-mark disk. Forgive me if I'm not up on all the Mac lingo - I am primarily a PC user and only have the opportunity to work on a Mac at work. I have looked all over the internet trying to find a boot disk - to see if I could at least get in that way. I found a disk image for OS 7.5, but I get an error message saying it isn't the latest installer. I believe that her machine is running OS 8.5 (I'm not completely certain of this - as I have not been able to check the version since the computer will not boot up, and she has lost the original discs and documentation). If anyone can help me get a boot disk for this computer, or just give me some advice in general, I'd greatly appreciate it. Please send all replies to my email address.
No one can just give you a boot disk, but if your employer really *has* lost her original disks, she'll probably be best off buying a copy of Mac OS 9 from eBay or one of the various online merchants. Should be about $50.
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Well, what I was really referring to, I suppose, is a boot floppy that would give me access to the OS already installed. Like I said, I'm not a Mac-user, so I'm not totally up on all of it...... is this option possible, or is the only option a new OS?
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A boot CD would work. Are there any other Macs - BTW, what model is this? - of the same model around the office, or at least a similar model, whose boot CDs you could use?
If it's one that came with 8.1 or higher, there probably isn't any way to boot it from anything *but* a CD-ROM or hard disk.
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Well, she has a mac at home, and it's probably of a later model. I think I heard her say it was a Performa at on point (?), but I'm not totally sure. I'll ask her and see if she can bring the disks for that one and see if they work. Thanks for the advice.
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I have a mac powerbook 165 that does the same thing. I have no cd rom drive. How do I fix the problem?
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