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Flashing ? / not registering hard drive / OS disk not helping
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<blockquote data-quote="kaffeboy" data-source="post: 651644" data-attributes="member: 55470"><p><strong>I screwed up! Please, Help! I beg you!</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>I did something really stupid. </strong></p><p>We'll thing is I have a first generation 2.0GHz Core Duo Macbook with 2GB of RAM and 120HD (it came with 512 RAM and 60GB HDD stock). </p><p></p><p>I upgraded to Leopard a couple of months back and I decided to buy a 120GB hard drive when I bought Leopard (since Leopard is a big OS). Everything worked fine.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Last night, I was going through some things. After loading Ubuntu 8.10 on the Live CD, I realized I had 7.10 on my old drive. So I wen't and shut down and swap drives. When I did this, the old drive wouldn't go back in. After looking and looking, I realized that the two rubber pieces that go on either side of the hard drive were no longer there and had gone down. I couldn't get them out, so I went to get myself a pair of tweezers. I got them out, but it was 2:00am and superglue nowhere to be found. I tried remounting my original (Leopard) hard drive back in, since I had given up on the hd swap. Turns out, that when I turn it on, instead of booting into the Apple with the white background, all I get is the firmware lock asking for a password.</p><p></p><p>After several attempts, I tried taking it apart again, pulling the Hard Drive and pushing it back in. No luck <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Angry.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Angry:" title="Angry :Angry:" data-shortname=":Angry:" /> . I tried the old "Put the disc in to use Disk Utility" fix, it didn't even recognize the disk in the optical drive. I'm running out of options and I'm in my last week in my university. I'm graduating and I have a couple of final assingments due NEXT WEEK. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to drop me a line or an email.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kaffeboy, post: 651644, member: 55470"] [b]I screwed up! Please, Help! I beg you![/b] [B]I did something really stupid. [/B] We'll thing is I have a first generation 2.0GHz Core Duo Macbook with 2GB of RAM and 120HD (it came with 512 RAM and 60GB HDD stock). I upgraded to Leopard a couple of months back and I decided to buy a 120GB hard drive when I bought Leopard (since Leopard is a big OS). Everything worked fine. [INDENT]Last night, I was going through some things. After loading Ubuntu 8.10 on the Live CD, I realized I had 7.10 on my old drive. So I wen't and shut down and swap drives. When I did this, the old drive wouldn't go back in. After looking and looking, I realized that the two rubber pieces that go on either side of the hard drive were no longer there and had gone down. I couldn't get them out, so I went to get myself a pair of tweezers. I got them out, but it was 2:00am and superglue nowhere to be found. I tried remounting my original (Leopard) hard drive back in, since I had given up on the hd swap. Turns out, that when I turn it on, instead of booting into the Apple with the white background, all I get is the firmware lock asking for a password.[/INDENT] After several attempts, I tried taking it apart again, pulling the Hard Drive and pushing it back in. No luck :Angry: . I tried the old "Put the disc in to use Disk Utility" fix, it didn't even recognize the disk in the optical drive. I'm running out of options and I'm in my last week in my university. I'm graduating and I have a couple of final assingments due NEXT WEEK. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to drop me a line or an email. [/QUOTE]
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