My usb powered, 750gb external harddrive wont appear on my desktop or on disk utiltiy. im using a Mac Powerbook G4 with mac osx !0.5.8. My external harddrive is in FAT32. the usb ports r fine because ive tried some other external hard drives in them and they work. any suggestions?

You need to update you OS to 10.1 or higher. It will not work with OS10.

Good Luck.
Semper Fi,
Z

try to format it in other way like ntfs or fat32....

Suchisart,
If you want a stand alone backup solution, you can download a free program called "Carbon Copy Cloner" and purchase a USB 2.0 external hard drive. You can use the CCC software to backup the entire contents of your Powerbook's hard drive or just selected files to the external USB hard drive.

If your Powerbook is unable to boot into OS X and you need to recover the files that are on the internal hard drive, you can boot the Powerbook into "Target Disk Mode" and transfer the files via firewire cable to another Mac. To do this do the following.

1. With both Macs off connect them with a firewire cable.
2. Turn on the Powerbook and hold down the "T" during startup.
3. Once the large icon shows up on screen your in "TDM".
4. Turn on the other Mac and login to your account.
5. The Powerbook's hard drive should mount on your desktop.
6. You'll be able to transfer your files from the Powerbook's hard drive just like you would an external hard drive, thumb drive, etc.

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1. Obtain a Mac OSX install disc (buy one from apple or try Ebay) 2. Insert the disc then click on the "Install Mac OS" icon. Then click the restart button. 3. DONT INSTALL! Just click through enough of the windows to get to the regular set of choices on the menu bar. One of those choices is UTILITIES and one of the choices there is RESET PASSWORD.
Simple, but you should know that anyone with a Mac OSX install disc can gain access to your computer.

No, because that model printer is just rubbish. Throw the thing out and purchase a laser Brother HL-2170 and it will work just splendid with the Apple PowerBook G4.

You don't need a "restore" cd.

You can just use any copy of Tiger.

Borrow one!

Try using the finder to locate your software packages and simply relocate their icons to the applications folder by opening several new finder windows and dragging and dropping them there.

If you, in fact, went through each application's setup, then the icons were created somewhere on the disk, perhaps on the desktop or even above the desktop, external to the particular user.

Try locating each package back to the applications folder.

Do you have any external harddrive attached to it? If so, remove it before restarting. Try to start it up in safe mode by holding the Shift button down at startup: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455

You're in luck if you have another mac because you can now use it's drive to install from. Connect the computers together using a firewire cable then restart the mac with the broken drive holding down the T key at the bong until a firewire symbol appears on screen. The other mac can now see it and can install the software to it as an external drive.

Otherwise you would need a firewire cd drive or USB to Firewire adaptor for your cd drive. If you get one of those you hold the alt key while rebooting and this will display a list of bootable devices.

On the latest OSX disks it has a folder for network cd/dvd access for intallation but again you need another mac to mac use of it.

All the Best
Sean
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