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Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Frances144 on July 29, 2013, 09:48:58 AM

Is anyone selling or know of anyone selling a Mac laptop that can vouch it works ok.

I am reluctant to go to Fleabay but needs must if nothing here.

RIP my iBook G4, a present from Mr Jobs due to my persistent nagging!

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Highmac on July 29, 2013, 10:27:50 AM

Hi Frances - have PM'd you

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Frances144 on July 29, 2013, 12:28:32 PM

Thanks.

I have managed to get the info off the hard drive using the world's oldest version of Data Rescue II.  Phew.

It is stuck on the Blue Screen of death running 10.4.something.

I have tried fsck -y and saw nothing
I have tried PRM and got no further

Still blue screen......

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Paddy on July 29, 2013, 07:56:56 PM

Frances, do you happen to have a cloned backup on an external drive? Or any clone on an external drive that will run on a G4 iBook? I think OS X up to 10.5.8 will work - look it up at everymac.com to be sure it works on your model.

Or a 10.4 install disk (or the disk the machine came with)?

If you can start up from either of those, then it's a pretty good bet that the hard drive is gone and that can be replaced, although it's rated "difficult" at iFixit for the various G4 iBook models.

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Frances144 on July 30, 2013, 08:56:12 AM

I tried to do a clone back up but it said it would erase the whole disk and I was worried it meant the target hard drive which has other things on it.

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Paddy on July 30, 2013, 09:27:25 AM

Do you have another clone (anything up to 10.5.8 should work) or the system disks? Again, anything up to 10.5.8...

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Frances144 on July 30, 2013, 10:12:08 AM

We do have the system disks (we think) but it would not boot off them.  Only the Tech Rescue cd.
(and that was the method I used to get the information stored on Users over to an external hard drive)

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Frances144 on July 30, 2013, 10:26:17 AM

Today, new!

We now have a half black and half grey screen.

Never seen that before.

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Paddy on July 30, 2013, 08:04:12 PM

That doesn't sound like a good development.

Could be a symptom of a failing logic board...try the Tech Rescue CD (do you mean TechTool?) again. If it happens with that, then I suspect the iBook is toast. If it doesn't, well...unless this is an intermittent issue, it could still be the HD.

You do need to find something else to start up from that you KNOW is likely to work if the iBook's problem is just a failed/failing drive. If you're not sure the disks you tried were the system disks, pop them into another Mac and see what they are.

Title: Anyone Selling a Laptop (Mac)?
Post by: Frances144 on August 01, 2013, 10:45:23 AM

Now that is a good idea!

(personally I think the iBook is toast)