His drive didn't show up in the disk utility. It is either bad, or a cable came unseated. I suppose there could be an issue with the motherboard, or disk controller, but let's not think about that.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Charles Lenington <[email protected]>wrote: > On 12/31/11 1:14 AM, Dylan McDermond wrote: > >> On Dec 31, 2011 1:50 AM, "Todd Brayer" <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> I never used 10.1, but doesn't it have a Startup Disk thing in the >>> control panels that you can use to have it default to starting from >>> the system disk? I don't see if you tried that or not. >>> >> >> >> > Open the cd/dvd drive door w/ your finger. copy the computer info listed > > it will look like > > 700 mhz 40 gig hd 512 meg CDrom > dvd > Combo > > what I'm looking for is the last item above. If you have a cdrom drive a > dvd won't work in it. The early eMacs shipped w/ cdroms. > > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at > http://lowendmac.com/lists/**vintagemacs.shtml<http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml>and > our netiquette guide is at > http://www.lowendmac.com/**lists/netiquette.shtml<http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/vintage-macs <http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs> > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- Sincerely: Camden Stensland, A+ Technician, CCNA, MCP .CAM Computer Services Founder/President/Technician Ph: 206.769.4585 Alt: 206.632.4176 [email protected] -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
