Help Required Fixing G4 Powerbook...

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  1. Stan, Feb 17, 2006

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    When I boot up my G4 PB, it sticks on the grey screen, at the point before the spinning grey circle appears. I figure that I might be able to fix this with a software restore, but the PB drive is also not reading any disks - it whirrs loudly and spits them out. Anyone know if it is possible to boot the G4 from an external drive, or using an iMac G5? Many thanks.
     
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  2. Stan, Feb 18, 2006

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    Anybody????

    All suggestions gratefully received....
     
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  3. Gokhan, Feb 19, 2006

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    carbon copy cloner use this to clone any mac os on to yours using firewire
     
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  4. AstrosFan, Feb 19, 2006

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    Here's some help from the Apple Support website - specifically talking about what you should do if you boot up & see a blank, grey screen.

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464#symp3

    I believe it is possible to boot from an external Firewire drive that has the OS already installed, but I'm not sure about booting from another computer.
    I know that you can hook the computers using Firewire & boot so that the PB shows up as a secondary HD on the iMac. You connect the computers with a firewire cable, then turn on the PB & hold down the "T" key. The computer should then show up as an external disk on the iMac.

    If that all fails, it's time for a call to Apple support, IMO.
    Good luck!
     
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