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When I put a CD-RW in the drive of my eMac Combo (G4, OS X 10.3.5), the computer treats it as an ordinary CD-R. If I burn anything on it, the resulting disk is not rewritable. Anyone know how to persuade the computer to treat a CD-RW as a CD-RW?

Thanks for low-down on Virtual PC. No, I don't think I specially mentioned scan quality on the GT-9000. With only 8-bit colours the image you get naturally needs a bit of tweaking up. Mind you, so do the images I'm getting with the new 48-bit Canon. But I've been using the old Epson for so...

Big? Yes, I usually think of mine as 'the aircraft carrier'. HP 4670? I think I mentioned before, I bought one and had to send it back.The software was horrendously unstable, and when I did manage to get a scan out of it, the image looked as if it had been sprinkled with salt or white sugar...

You mad foolhardy crittur, macos10!!!! Good luck with it. I, in stark contrast, have just bought a cheap A4 picture frame. 'So what?' I hear you all cry. So this: I took the A4-size piece of glass out of the frame and laid it on the bed of my new scanner, to bring the level of the scanning...

I've found a Canon scanner (Lidé 35) which, amazingly, actually works with Mac OSX, unlike the new Epson and HP scanners I've tried recently. Compared with the new Epson and HP garbage, the Canon software (a) seems to be very stable, (b) produces scans that don't look as they've been sprinkled...

Only just seen Tommy WillB's message - carpet-chewing temporarily suspended. 'Flush bed-and-surround' means that the scanner bed and the surrounding area have to be on the same level to allow objects larger in area than A4 (most of them larger than A3, as it happens) to be scanned in sections...

I have now got the new battery. I have cleaned the contacts. I have installed the new battery. I have checked the polarity. I have connected the cables. I have reset PRAM. I have checked and double-checked everything. Guess what. It still doesn't work. The screen still stays dark. No more just...

I've got the old battery out (it's exactly the type you said, DeltaMac - take a bow) but the shops near me haven't got one. I've had to order one online. We will all now hold our breath until the dear old Royal Mail get around to delivering it - probably about August... Of course even if I...

OK, maybe that could be the problem. Now, how do I change the battery (assuming I can find a new one)? I've looked at the inside of the computer and I can't see where the battery is, let alone any sign of how to get it out or get a new one in. Do I really have to get an Apple engineer to come...

What battery? The manual for the old Powermac doesn't mention a battery, except the clock battery. Is that really what you mean?

Plan B: Can anyone suggest how I can get my old Mac (Powermac 7500/100) going again? If it worked I could use it for scanning, and use the new one for everything else. All that's wrong with the old Mac (as far as I know) is that the screen stays dark when I turn it on. It was still working...

Tried it. Didn't work.

No it doesn't.

Since buying a new eMac Combo last November, I've been trying for quite a while to connect my old Epson GT-9000 scanner to it. After a series of melodramatic struggles that make Wagner's Ring cycle look like a limerick, I've got a collection of cables and adapters that enable me to connect the...