12' mac powerbook wont boot, need help.

[idiaz1258]

Can anyone help? I have a 12' g4 mac powerbook powerpc and I am unable to get it to boot. Whenever i start it up it never gets past the grey apple logo with spinning grey wheel. I tried to reformat with the mac OSX boot dvd and it doesn't accept it, it just spins for a few secs then the system turns off. I know when I put in a new hard drive it works fine, the thing is I would really like to get all my files from the hard drive. Can anyone help.

Thank you in advance.

 

[RetroGamer360]

Wow! A 12' G4 PowerBook ... and I thought my 17" had a big screen. It must be a heck of a thing lugging that around.

 

[leodavinci0]

So you know the HDD is bad. The only method I suggest is finding an online service that specializes in recovering files from bad HDDs and mailing it out.