i accidently left a powerbook g4 in my girlfriends car over the weekend (which was a very hot and nasty weekend) who brought her 3 and 4 year old kids with her. i recently pulled the 'book out of my car, only to find a partially destroyed screen, toasted cd drive, and a completely dead pc card slot. whenever i turn on the mac, i get the frowny mac... you know, the one with the black background... i need to get stuff off the hard drive ASAP before my boss finds out about his mac... any suggestions? thanks

You might be able to use a firewire between the two. I know you can do it with two iMacs. Hook up a firewire to both computers. Boot the root (Good) computer up first. When that's done, boot up the PB and hold down "t" (Target). What your doing is telling the PB that it's been targeted by another computer for access and retrieval. You'll notice an icon on your desktop of the PB. That is if you can actually get it to full boot while holding the "t" down. Make sure you drop it in the trash and empty it before you stop this procedure. If you don't, the good computer will do things you've never seen before. NOT GOOD. It's actually beyond file sharing but treat it as such. TOUCHDOWN SEAHAWKS

If it's not booting, I don't think FireWire Target Disk Mode is going to be any help. You can probably recover the data by pulling the hard disk, installing it in an external FireWire case, and hooking it up to another Mac. The LCD is probably toast. The rest of it *might* be salvageable. p

okay. i pulled the hard drive out and stuck it in a *very* homeless makeshift firewire box. i started to move files from one drive to my iMac when the power went out due to a SURGE... now my iMac wont start up. im screwed... thanks anyway.

note: i actually thought of that firewire idea and started on it before i checked up here... UGH - thanks tho

Hrm. Surge protectors would be a good investment... p

I hope your girlfriend offerred to replace what her children had destroyed. If, not........well, what does that tell you?