Hello,
I recently acquired a MacBook (the plastic white kind) from a friend who had his way with it and now want me to resurrect it. The MacBook had the flashing folder with a question mark on boot. I reset the PRAM and NVRAM and still nothing. Took out the Hard Drive and upon further testing figured out that it is legitimately permaf***ed. So I have an extra SATA 2.5" drive that I was going to replace it with, and then I was going to order the Recovery CD for it, but my friend mentioned that the optical drive had not been reading disks. So before I order those I want to figure out if the drive is working. I was going to use some kind of bootable CD to test the drive. But I wasn't sure about a few things.
Can I burn an ISO of a Linux Live cd in a Windows Environment and boot it with a MacBook? (I was thinking like **** Small Linux)
Is there an easier way to test the optical drive?
Can I replace the MacBook Hard Drive with any 2.5" SATA Drive?
Can this plastic piece of junk run the new Mac OS X?
Why can't we all get along?
I recently acquired a MacBook (the plastic white kind) from a friend who had his way with it and now want me to resurrect it. The MacBook had the flashing folder with a question mark on boot. I reset the PRAM and NVRAM and still nothing. Took out the Hard Drive and upon further testing figured out that it is legitimately permaf***ed. So I have an extra SATA 2.5" drive that I was going to replace it with, and then I was going to order the Recovery CD for it, but my friend mentioned that the optical drive had not been reading disks. So before I order those I want to figure out if the drive is working. I was going to use some kind of bootable CD to test the drive. But I wasn't sure about a few things.
Can I burn an ISO of a Linux Live cd in a Windows Environment and boot it with a MacBook? (I was thinking like **** Small Linux)
Is there an easier way to test the optical drive?
Can I replace the MacBook Hard Drive with any 2.5" SATA Drive?
Can this plastic piece of junk run the new Mac OS X?
Why can't we all get along?