Hello..
Hopefully you all can help me. I have a 12" powerbook g4.
I recently bought an external hard drive (OWC Mercury Elite-Al). I cloned my internal (Hitachi) to the external drive. Then I did an "erase and install" on my powerbook, and reinstalled Tiger.
Everything works fine, I can boot from my external perfectly, and I can boot from my INTERNAL, but ONLY when it's connected to the external via firewire.
When I disconnect the firewire, it won't boot on it's own from the internal. The apple symbol appears, but then eventually turns to a flashing "prohibitory sign".
Does this mean that my hard drive failed? I wouldn't be able to still work from the internal hard drive if that's the case would I? I booted it from the internal (with the external connected), then disconnected the external, and I'm able to use it perfectly.
I just want to be able to boot it without the external because it's so big.
I did the repair disk, and have the internal set as the "start up disk."
When it's running, and I restart, it boots fine, but not when I shut it down and turn it on again.
Or, could I have not installed the OS correctly? When I put the installer cd in without the external, it doesn't recognize my internal.
I can't think of anything else to do...HELP!
Thank you!
Erik
Hopefully you all can help me. I have a 12" powerbook g4.
I recently bought an external hard drive (OWC Mercury Elite-Al). I cloned my internal (Hitachi) to the external drive. Then I did an "erase and install" on my powerbook, and reinstalled Tiger.
Everything works fine, I can boot from my external perfectly, and I can boot from my INTERNAL, but ONLY when it's connected to the external via firewire.
When I disconnect the firewire, it won't boot on it's own from the internal. The apple symbol appears, but then eventually turns to a flashing "prohibitory sign".
Does this mean that my hard drive failed? I wouldn't be able to still work from the internal hard drive if that's the case would I? I booted it from the internal (with the external connected), then disconnected the external, and I'm able to use it perfectly.
I just want to be able to boot it without the external because it's so big.
I did the repair disk, and have the internal set as the "start up disk."
When it's running, and I restart, it boots fine, but not when I shut it down and turn it on again.
Or, could I have not installed the OS correctly? When I put the installer cd in without the external, it doesn't recognize my internal.
I can't think of anything else to do...HELP!
Thank you!
Erik