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Trying to reformat old iBook laptop
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<blockquote data-quote="margieT" data-source="post: 799006" data-attributes="member: 85267"><p><strong>still dead in the water</strong></p><p></p><p>Well - it may be too late for the ol' girl. I bought it 7 years ago this week. I tried the method you recommended and got it to show the startup CD and my good laptop on the desktop, but it didn't mount. Went into system profiler and it shows nothing for the old laptop... no DVD showed for that computer, and no mounted internal hard drive. </p><p></p><p>Wish i could fix it, these old computers are perfect for kids. I'm still using the desktop tower I bought in 1998! Just keep opening it up and adding things to it. Guess I thought these laptops were just as hardy. I'm writing this on one I bought in 2005. </p><p></p><p>Any ideas? Or is it off to the ant farm?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="margieT, post: 799006, member: 85267"] [b]still dead in the water[/b] Well - it may be too late for the ol' girl. I bought it 7 years ago this week. I tried the method you recommended and got it to show the startup CD and my good laptop on the desktop, but it didn't mount. Went into system profiler and it shows nothing for the old laptop... no DVD showed for that computer, and no mounted internal hard drive. Wish i could fix it, these old computers are perfect for kids. I'm still using the desktop tower I bought in 1998! Just keep opening it up and adding things to it. Guess I thought these laptops were just as hardy. I'm writing this on one I bought in 2005. Any ideas? Or is it off to the ant farm? [/QUOTE]
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