wanted to buy

2007-08-31 Thread KEVIN Lock
My son treats his keyboard like an anvil. Nothing works any more. Has anyone got a USB keyboard to suit an iMac for sale? Ta, Kev -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

DDR2 SDRA

2007-08-31 Thread Adrian Skehan
I have a pair of 512Mb DDR2 SDRAM Memory Modules for sale anyone interested please make an offer. Adrian Skehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Re: wanted to buy

2007-08-31 Thread Reg Whitely
Kevin New ones from Apple online are only about $55. I bought Elaine one recently and it arrived within 2 days. Maybe the new one is available now. Wireless are about $80 from memory. Reg On 31 Aug 2007, at 1:33pm, KEVIN Lock wrote: My son treats his keyboard like an anvil. Nothing

Re: Portable HD

2007-08-31 Thread John Daniels
Thanks Bob I bought the Maxtor 80GB today but cannot get my eMac to recognise it at all. The Installation Guide indicates that the connection is USB 2 whereas the eMac I think has USB 1 ports. Would that prevent the installation? John D On 30/8/07 5:54 PM, Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: Portable HD

2007-08-31 Thread J Philippe Chaperon
Ooops! Sent this direct to John. Sorry! But here it is now. Regards, Philippe -- Forwarded Message From: J Philippe Chaperon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:00:51 +0800 To: John Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Conversation: Portable HD Subject: Re: Portable HD Hi John other

Re: Portable HD

2007-08-31 Thread Robert Howells
On 31/08/2007, at 8:20 PM, John Daniels wrote: Thanks Bob I bought the Maxtor 80GB today but cannot get my eMac to recognise it at all. The Installation Guide indicates that the connection is USB 2 whereas the eMac I think has USB 1 ports. Would that prevent the installation? John D

Re: Portable HD

2007-08-31 Thread Susan Hastings
Hi John, my understanding is that PC formatted disks do just appear on the desktop, its always happened for me. USB 1 ports are going to be slow, but it should still mount OK. So, the question would be: what operating system are you using? Have you tried all of the different ports on your

Re: Portable HD

2007-08-31 Thread Adrian Skehan
Try mounting it on another Mac, you can come and try it on mine if you like (G5 and G4 iMac.) Adrian Skehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 01/09/2007, at 9:37 AM, Susan Hastings wrote: Hi John, my understanding is that PC formatted disks do just appear on the desktop, its always happened for me.

Re: Portable HD

2007-08-31 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi John, The Seagate/Maxtor website has a good troubleshooter. External Drive Troubleshooter - Mac OS Detection Issue - My drive is not seen on the desktop: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en- USname=External_Drive_Troubleshooter_-_Mac_OS_Detection_Issue_-

Re: Portable HD being bootable

2007-08-31 Thread Chris Burton
Hi all I have been using external firewire drives for backups for quite a few years now by dragging and dropping all my relevant files over from my G5 then storing them in a safe place. I am however not sure how to install OSX correctly on the firewire drives so I can use them as a boot

Re: Portable HD being bootable

2007-08-31 Thread Robert Howells
On 01/09/2007, at 10:16 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi all I have been using external firewire drives for backups for quite a few years now by dragging and dropping all my relevant files over from my G5 then storing them in a safe place. I am however not sure how to install OSX correctly

Re: Portable HD being bootable

2007-08-31 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Chris, If your External Firewire Drive is Mac OS Extended, you can install on the external drive in exactly the same way as your main drive - reboot from the installation disk, and when you get to the destination disk screen, select your external drive. The installation will default to

Re: Portable HD being bootable

2007-08-31 Thread Dudley Gager
Hi All The best thing I ever did was to get Superduper and it does it all for you - in my case at 3.30am every other day to the one partition and every month to the other. I actually use 2 firewire drives this way and keep one rotated off site. I had my first ever internal drive failure