Can you boot off a floppy? Or cd rom?
Worst case scenario...if you don't want to repair the 190...you can put the
drive in an external case...from MCE or other vendor...you can get a pc card
adapter, or firewire and access it on your Pismo...
on 7/10/01 1:30 AM, Jim Freeman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My girlfriend is going through every graduate student's nightmare. She is on
> the verge of finishing her dissertation and her powerbook died. She hasn't
> backed up for a month, so if we can't recover the data she will have lost a
> month's work.
>
> Her computer is slightly off topic, being a PB190cs, but maybe someone on
> the list will have a suggestion.
>
> She got a bomb, which I believe said error 10, or something (system 7.6.1).
> We restarted and the start up chime wasn't right. The smiling apple face
> came up, but hung. We forced reboot again and the chime was even stranger.
> After that it wouldnąt boot at all. There is only a faint click when I press
> the start button.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?
>
> If the computer is not easily repairable, what would be the best way to get
> the data off the HD?
>
> I was thinking about taking the HD out and trying to put it in another
> laptop, but we only have a PB145 and my pismo (see, not totally off topic).
> Checking specs these computers don't seem to have compatible HD interfaces.
>
> Any suggestions or theories would be appreciated.
>
> Jim
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