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I dropped my aluminum powerbook and destroyed the lcd. After getting a dvi to vga adapter my desktop in in extended mode. I cant get to my dock to change the settings. Is there a quick key command to change the display to mirrored so that i can use my powerbook again til I replace the lcd?

Hello all, I have a lacie d2 firewire drive (120GB) that I want to upgrade to a 1TB HD, I know that the internal connection on the drive is IDE, however I have not seen drives of 1TB that have IDE connections on them. I have seen these IDE to SATA adapters and I am wondering if it will work for...

I have an external Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-116d burner hooked to my Duo iMac and since I updated the software with software update, Leopard only recognizes it as a Mass Storage Device. Says it's manufacturer is Prolific Technology Inc. So it doesn't recognize any DVD or CD that I put in it, blank...

Hi folks, I have a 750 GB external drive that my wife has been using for backups from her windows machine. It came preformatted using fat32. I can read and write to it from the mac. But timemachine only wants to use an hfs file system. I wanted to shrink the fat32 partition and create a hfs...

when i restart and hold down 'T'...a firewire symbol shows on the screen.. my external HD only uses this USB cord/connection i'm using a new MacBook Pro...

Wonder if anyone out there could advise me on external hard drives, portable, without power: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148551 or http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149256 these seem like the best out there at the moment - these seems to be a fair amount of different in price. I'm...

I am trying to reformat a 500 GB USB HDD to one FAT32 partition so that I can use it on a Mac and a PC. I have seen many references to using the disk utitilty and creating a partition in MS-DOS format, but my computer does not have that option. The only four options I have are Mac OS Extended...

Hello Im sorry if I seem like a idiot but I just bought my first mac from my brother a couple of days ago and he used it for music downloading/recording and also video editing so when he sold it to me it really didn't have that much space left on it so I when out and purchased a Western Digital...

Hi everyone, I just found this site so forgive my ignorance in advance. I have a 17" flat screen imac from 2003. I just bought a western digital external hard drive and it says it will work with os x 10.3+. I have os x 10.2.8 and it does not seem to work with my system (because I don't have...

My Mac's Disk Utility wont recognize my WD 115 Gig external drive - I want to use the external as a backup to files on my Mac - below is the sequence of what I did while trying to get the Mac to read the drive 1. After connecting the drive to my Mac - USB directly into the computer - I...

Hi all, I got a used powerbook g4 aluminum recently and want to connect my werstern digital 80gb hard drive via usb. When I do it doesn't recognize it. Doesn't show up on desktop. The usb port seems to be working as I can use my mouse with it ok. Any thoughts on why this could be happening? The...

I have installed an external HD using firewire 400. I partitioned it into two. It works great with the following exception. When I click on one partition in an open-save dialog box one or borh partitions unmount. I then have to go to Disk utility to remount them. Any ideas how to fix this? I am...

Alright: So, one day, I decided to use iPartiton to partition my external hard drive. Ive done this a couple of times. Now, when I reboot... It doesn't appear! Now, here is the weird thing: I plugged it in my sister's windows XP laptop, it works. So I guessed it was a UNIX "Unclean...

This seems like it is a simple question but its so simple that i cant find an answer on this forum. I almost know nothing about Macs and the vocab (partition? no idea it is and why i would want it) I bought a new MyBook external HD 500Gb. Basically all i have done is plugged it in, my MacBook...

Hello Mac Experts, I am so frustrated. I connected my Seagate portable USB drive into the Mac so I can burn data from the portable drive to a DVD. However, my Mac froze while performing this task. I couldn't access anything, or even restart my Mac. So I ended up restarting the mac by pushing...

Hi Guys, First time poster but this place has been SO SO useful since getting my macbook last year... (Thanks for all the posters!!!) I'm trying to pull all my mp3 / pictures into one place (currently split between nice shiny fast mac... and old dusty useless windoze machine...) I'm...

I have a Western Digital 500gb external hard drive, with 2 partitions, 'KAINARC' and 'JUNGLEMAC', connected to my Intelmac (Tiger 10.4.11 via my firewire, i have connected via usb but the problem is still the same). I may have shut down the drive improperly to cause this situation. KAINARC...

Hi there, Is it possible to use an iMac (g4) that has a broken hard drive as an external monitor for another computer ?

Is the HP w1907 a good external monitar for my MacBook Pro? I have a lot of problems when I hook up my MacBook Pro to my HDTV. It doesn't look OMG STUNNING! But it's not bad either. Really cool for watching a movie, or just messing about online. but for when I am at my desk it would be nice to...

Hello all I am running Leopard on iMac (with no built in cam). My external iSight (firewire) has stopped working, its been ages since it worked i think about 2 updates ago. But I have lived with out it. I now want to use it again. I cannot find any drivers to get the thing working...