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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Discs eject without reading and no external HD
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 865019" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>If the PB is this model</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/stats/powerbook_g4_1.0_15.html" target="_blank">Apple PowerBook G4 1.0 15" (FW800 - Al) Specs (15-Inch FW800 - M8980LL/A) @ EveryMac.com</a></p><p></p><p>or any with Firewire, look for a Firewire external optical drive. PowerPC machines, which includes all G3, G4 and G5's will not boot from USB, even USB2.</p><p></p><p>Also an external Firewire hard drive will be bootable with an OS installed on it. Must be Apple Partition Map and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format however.</p><p></p><p>May well be simpler to install another internal optical drive?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 865019, member: 42497"] If the PB is this model [url=http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/stats/powerbook_g4_1.0_15.html]Apple PowerBook G4 1.0 15" (FW800 - Al) Specs (15-Inch FW800 - M8980LL/A) @ EveryMac.com[/url] or any with Firewire, look for a Firewire external optical drive. PowerPC machines, which includes all G3, G4 and G5's will not boot from USB, even USB2. Also an external Firewire hard drive will be bootable with an OS installed on it. Must be Apple Partition Map and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format however. May well be simpler to install another internal optical drive? [/QUOTE]
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