Power Book G4

[Berniemyk]

Hi, The hard drive for my Power Book G4 has died. Is there a way to use my WD External dive to re-boot my laptop.

Thank you

 

[Orange Crane]

You should be able to run it off an external drive assuming the drive has a bootable os installed on it, hold down 'option' when you turn the PowerBook on and it'll display the available boot drives.

 

[MisterKeeks]

Hi, The hard drive for my Power Book G4 has died. Is there a way to use my WD External dive to re-boot my laptop.

Thank you

You can set it as default by going to System Preferences> Startup Disk, and selecting the external.

 

[Hrududu]

You'll need to connect it through FireWire.

 

[Falstaff]

You'll need to connect it through FireWire.

This! As far as I have ever seen (and lord knows I've tried) the PB G4 can't boot from usb. But it can from firewire. I always keep a firewire drive around that has a small bootable partition on it for just such emergencies. You will loose portability if you choose this as a permanent option. Or at least it would be more inconvenient.

 

[eyoungren]

This! As far as I have ever seen (and lord knows I've tried) the PB G4 can't boot from usb. But it can from firewire. I always keep a firewire drive around that has a small bootable partition on it for just such emergencies. You will loose portability if you choose this as a permanent option. Or at least it would be more inconvenient.

You can boot from USB. You just have to work it.