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Failed Hard Drive, Possibly Optical Drive Too, Need Some Help
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<blockquote data-quote="MacNoob18" data-source="post: 790588" data-attributes="member: 82826"><p>Hello,</p><p> 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.</p><p></p><p>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)</p><p></p><p>Is there an easier way to test the optical drive?</p><p></p><p>Can I replace the MacBook Hard Drive with any 2.5" SATA Drive?</p><p></p><p>Can this plastic piece of junk run the new Mac OS X?</p><p></p><p>Why can't we all get along?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacNoob18, post: 790588, member: 82826"] 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? [/QUOTE]
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