Hey everyone.
First post here(I think...registered a while ago) and I've got a problem. I was doing some monkeying around with my mb for the past few nights. Installed Leopard on an external hard drive to get some space. When I installed it, the install cd got stuck. I searched and found a few methods. Tipping the mb got it out last night.
Today I put VMware fusion on the EHD, and installed xp home so I could do some gaming, because I couldnt get lotro past the firewall in Vista on my internal boot camp partition. So it installed fine, and that CD came out fine, no problem. I tossed in the LOTRO install disk and blah blah blah, tells me to put in disk 2. So I tilt the laptop, didn't work. Searched the methods again, came up with the other methods. Let it cool down, then started it up holding the trackpad button down. It tries to spit it out like 3 times then boots into my internal mac partition. I've tried to kick it out with internal mac, external mac and vista - nothing works.
I'm not shoving crap into my hard drive. Sorry.
It's never done this before. I don't know what it is. It makes alot of loud noise when I hit eject, pretty brutal clicking noise. It's definitely trying to kick it out.
I don't know what to do. Getting really frustrated. I didn't think installing software would screw up hardware. I just can't ignore the coincidence of installing all this software right before the problem showed up. I can't send it in to apple because it would cost a lot of money and I need the laptop for school.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
First post here(I think...registered a while ago) and I've got a problem. I was doing some monkeying around with my mb for the past few nights. Installed Leopard on an external hard drive to get some space. When I installed it, the install cd got stuck. I searched and found a few methods. Tipping the mb got it out last night.
Today I put VMware fusion on the EHD, and installed xp home so I could do some gaming, because I couldnt get lotro past the firewall in Vista on my internal boot camp partition. So it installed fine, and that CD came out fine, no problem. I tossed in the LOTRO install disk and blah blah blah, tells me to put in disk 2. So I tilt the laptop, didn't work. Searched the methods again, came up with the other methods. Let it cool down, then started it up holding the trackpad button down. It tries to spit it out like 3 times then boots into my internal mac partition. I've tried to kick it out with internal mac, external mac and vista - nothing works.
I'm not shoving crap into my hard drive. Sorry.
It's never done this before. I don't know what it is. It makes alot of loud noise when I hit eject, pretty brutal clicking noise. It's definitely trying to kick it out.
I don't know what to do. Getting really frustrated. I didn't think installing software would screw up hardware. I just can't ignore the coincidence of installing all this software right before the problem showed up. I can't send it in to apple because it would cost a lot of money and I need the laptop for school.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.