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- Feb 12, 2007
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- Your Mac's Specs
- G4 MDD dual 1ghz, 2 gigs RAM; 5.5G iPod, 2G iPod Shuffle
So I've used my old dual 1ghz G4 MDD for a long time to store photos, music, and record music with. I bought all of the Garageband expansion packs, along with some other music software that cost me a decent chunk of money.
Unfortunately between moving a couple times, I have lost the disks to most of the stuff along with the OSX disks.
A couple days ago I went to turn it on, and all I got was a white screen and the sound of the HD clicking away. Not good.
By some stroke of luck I tried it again last night and it turned on, albeit slowly. So I crossed my fingers, went to Fry's electronics and purchased a 320 gig internal drive. Got home, installed it, and turned the computer back on to get the clicking noise and no boot up. Several attempts to boot from the OSX disks that came with my Macbook and I kept receiving messages about Kernal panics. Oh, I was bummed at that point.
Right before unplugging everything a few hours later I tried booting it one last time and it turned on correctly. Mirrored the main drive to the new one, changed the boot disk over and I didn't even lose one file.
Sorry for the long incoherent post, but I'm just happy I learned the easy way why backing up everything on a regular basis is key to trouble free computing.
Unfortunately between moving a couple times, I have lost the disks to most of the stuff along with the OSX disks.
A couple days ago I went to turn it on, and all I got was a white screen and the sound of the HD clicking away. Not good.
By some stroke of luck I tried it again last night and it turned on, albeit slowly. So I crossed my fingers, went to Fry's electronics and purchased a 320 gig internal drive. Got home, installed it, and turned the computer back on to get the clicking noise and no boot up. Several attempts to boot from the OSX disks that came with my Macbook and I kept receiving messages about Kernal panics. Oh, I was bummed at that point.
Right before unplugging everything a few hours later I tried booting it one last time and it turned on correctly. Mirrored the main drive to the new one, changed the boot disk over and I didn't even lose one file.
Sorry for the long incoherent post, but I'm just happy I learned the easy way why backing up everything on a regular basis is key to trouble free computing.