Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:18:43 -0500 Subject: Re: iBook as External Hard Drive From: Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on 25/01/04 06:51, Robin Ashe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!]How would she go about setting her iBook up as an external HD? I live in a
different city from her, so the easier the instructions are the better so
that something doesn't get lost in conveying the instructions to her.
Does her iBook has FireWire ports? If so, she could try to start it in
FireWire mode, where you restart the computer and then press 'F' and the
computer becomes a FireWire hard drive.
Of course, with all the problems she had, this is assuming that FireWire and
the hard drive are still working...
-Laurent.
It's "T" to start up in FW target mode. The OP was trying to hook up to a rev B iMac, and they don't have FireWire. You'd have to try hooking it up to the Dell, but I'm not sure about that one recognizing a Mac-formatted drive. If the computer is truly dead, remove the HD and borrow a friend's PB to transfer data.
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