#Selling mac powerbook g4 full
#Selling mac powerbook g4 software
#Selling mac powerbook g4 Pc

alternately, you can reinstall and migrate from a backup.

In the event you have directory corruption, the tool to get is disk warrior. Thanks for any help or suggestions! Obviously I do need to get to the root of the problem to get it fixed, but I would at least like to get it to boot like I did at the hotel so that I can do some further diagnostics (and use it temporarily ).

#Selling mac powerbook g4 full

Thankfully I do have a full backup on an external WD MyDisk.

#Selling mac powerbook g4 Pc

In the meantime, looks like I'll just use PSE on the PC to re-size my photos.

#Selling mac powerbook g4 software

It doesn't appear to be the board or anything 'serious' as everything else works fine when I do boot from the OS DVD including the USB ports, Firewire, DVI output - the PowerBook G4 just isn't finding the hard disk.Īny Mac Guru's have advice? I'm in Mac withdrawal and really need the photo editing software on there (full photoshop package, $$ software). I can boot from my OS DVD (OS X 10.5) but that doesn't find the hard disk either. I'm thinking the hard disk may have gone bad (or perhaps a connection to the hard disk ?) - for whatever reason my Mac just isn't finding the hard drive on startup. All that does is restart the machine when I try it now. I did have an issue once where the Mac couldn't find the OS, but I used the option + open apple + P & R and it worked. I don't know what it was I did at the hotel that got it started or if it was just dumb luck after two hours of frustration. However, now that I am home I can't get it going at all - have tried all the different startup key combo's. I then turned it on again, it found the hard disk/OS and started. option - open apple - P & R) I was ready to give up. The Mac would then go to a gray screen and eventually go to the 'no disk' icon.Īfter two hours of using the various key combos I know of (i.e. When I tried to boot my PowerBook G4 in LIR I would get the chime, I would hear the hard drive start and then stop. My PowerBook G4 has all of my photo editing software and is the main machine I use. I took many fantastic pics using my Cannon G9 P&S thanks to the help over on the photography forum. I brought my Mac PowerBook G4 with me, but didn't use it until the last night when I ended my trip in Liberia, CR ( LIR). And thanks in advance for any replies.This may not be the best place to ask for help, but I know there is some great knowledge here. So, would he get more money by selling it as a whole unit? Or selling each individual part (logic board, super drive, LCD screen, etc.)? It I were to rate the overall cosmetic condition of the laptop, on a 1-10 scale, I would say its a 9.5 not a full 10 because of the light scratches on the bottom. The battery holds a full charge (surprising being that its been sitting around for so long (I guess because he had unplugged it from the laptop). The bottom case has one or two light scratches. The top case/keyboard are in perfect condition. Turns out that the Hard Drive is no good (he mentioned it crashed way back which is why he stopped using it), and the left fan is broken (one of the fan blades is cracked).īesides this, the laptop looks brand new. I tested it out for him to make sure everything was running well. He had it sitting in his closet for some time and decided to sell it and use the money to buy his wife a new MacBook/MacBook Pro. The laptop belongs to a coworker and he wants to sell it. The question I have today is: got this PowerBook G4 A1095, 15', 1.5GHz, 80GB, 512MB, ATI 64MB VRAM, superdrive. But recently I started repairing macs and I really like it. For the past couple of years I've been more of a PC guy. I recently started getting my hands dirty with macs and I gotta say that I'm really loving it.