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Which External DVD Drive to Install Operation System on iBook G4? I need to find an external DVD drive that is compatible with my iBook G4, and will allow me to install Tiger. I just bought a Sony Optiarc 8x External Slim USB external DVD drive, but my iBook will not recognize Tiger so I...

I have purchased a 1TB My Book Studio WD Drive and have transferred my 600GB of stuff onto it and sold my old drive. I am now looking to create a NTFS or FAT32 partition on the drive for use with Windows computers. I have tried creating a FAT32 partition using Disk Utility however this...

Hey guys, I am running a 2007 Imac. Version 10.5.8. 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4 GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM and am using my Macintosh HD as my Startup Disk. I have been starting to have some issues with my external hard drive (500gb Western Digital, connected via USB and power supply). I've never...

I have a Macbook Pro and have recently bought a Samsung P2370 monitor so that I have a larger monitor to work on photos in Photoshop. I've got the monitor working, the problem is I can't calibrate it. I have a Huey MEU101 calibrator and it's allowing me to calibrate the macbook monitor, but...

Hey everyone, I have a G4 powerbook with an LCD that only displays the top 25% of the screen. I've been using an external monitor with it just fine. Today, I reinstalled the OS and ran into a problem. The main OSX startup menu (you know, where it asks for your location, timezone, personal...

Hi Support Crew... I have a 13" MacBook(2,1). Today, I had the Iomega drive plugged in via USB, along with my soundcard (MOTU 828mk2) plugged in via FW. This is a very normal setup for me which has been bug free since I bought this computer over 2 years ago. When I plugged in my iPhone via...

Hi, can anyone help with an external monitor problem please? Bear with me cause this one is complicated. And I searched for it on here and I couldn't find anything cause everyone on here was asking how to get into this setting and I'm trying to get out of it. So anyway... I'm running a...

I'm using 10.5 and disk utility and and trying to figure out how to reformat a 500 gb OWC firewire drive BACK to one partition of 5OO gbs. It is set up currently as a RAID 1 and two approx drives @ 240 gbs. I've tried everything with disk utility and can't seem to figure out how to...

I have a Macbook Air somehow has lost/ damaged the user DB as none of the none of the user accounts are available. In single user mode, I have checked the users in the password file and my username is not listed. I tried changing the root password but I was unable to logon I tried...

Please help!! All I want is a simple external CD drive for my Macbook Pro (the internal CD hasn't been working for quite some time and the Apple store said that it would cost $600+ dollars to fix the internal issue!!) However, I found this external CD drive, but it's only for the Macbook Air...

need to figure out formatting...will post again.

I have an iBook G4 12" (1.33GHz) that i am currently trying to use with and external monitor. Here is my problem. I can ONLY Mirror the desktop on it that it is. I have no arrangement tab in my Display settings. what i would like to do is either make it my main display (or only display)...

Hi, I accidentaly applied Disk Utility's repair on a NTFS formatted external HD (which I run in OS X with Paragon NTFS). Now I can not use it in either OS X nor Windows XP. In OS X It does not get mounted, repaired, verified. In Windows It gets mounted but I can not open it or defrag it or...

I have an external hd that I removed from a user's Mac workstation (it was fully functional) and I want to attach it to the OSX server. However, after attaching it to the server, I cannot see it in Disk Utility. It does show up under System Profiler under the connection type. I have tried...

Quick Question: I just purchased a 500gb Seagate External (the plastic one) at OfficeMax, and upon checking out, noticed that it is "compatible with Windows Vista, EP." Okay. But no mention of the Mac. The salesperson said, "oh, yeah, it will just ask you if you want to format for the Mac, blah...

Hello, I have a pbg4 running 10.5 that I would like to do a clean OS install on. I don't currently own an external HD, but I do have access to my roommate's, which is currently hooked up to a PC so im assuming its formatted in NTFS. Is there a way for me to partition the drive, to leave...

Right guys, probably about 10 years ago I was a big techie with DOS and all that, and now I seem to have forgotten how to do anything!! So please bare with me. Two questions if anyone can help. i) My iMac, which I bought last year has run out of HDD space. What can I do to extend it? I...

Hello, I'm on Leopard and i can't seem to find a way to get sharing options on "get info" for my external HD's. I need to share them with other computers on my network (wireless), i can share other folders but not my HD's. In sharing options (system preferences) i add the HD's and add...

Hello! Recently, the external harddrive I use as general data collector started developing a very interesting problem. At first, it would start ejecting itself for no good reason, and now, it cannot be ejected anymore once plugged in. I have tried disc utility without much success as even...

Hi There, I've been recently experiencing problems with connecting more than one firewire drives directly to the existing computer ports. I use MacPro tower, leopard 10.5.5 When I have one drive already connected and try to add another external drive it either doesn't pop up, or the one...