My G-4 startup disc is full and now the computer won't start up. I am told to put a startup disc in the drive and restart from it, but I cannot get the disc drive to open. I have tried everything, including copying over to external hard drive. I read that if you hold the mouse button down, the disc drive will open, but this hasn't worked. Any input appreciated!!!
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Start up disc full, and I can't open disc drive
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Is there a small hole on the front of the tower? You could push a paper clip in there slightly and see if it manually ejects the tray
if not do you have access to a external USB / Firewall CD drive You could try booting from that
if not do you have access to a external USB / Firewall CD drive You could try booting from that
Thanks for your reply . . . I have tried the pinhole, and I have tried "rebooting" by hooking my laptop up via firewire. I still don't know how to startup from the firewire. I was able to transfer some files, but I don't have access to the startup disc. Any ideas.
If your wanting to start from another drive other then the internal HDD Press and hold the option key. The mac will try and find all available bootable devices