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Friend's Hard Drive died, best way to go?
RoboG2:
Does anyone know how to do it with knoppix?
Stingray:
Ask your buddy if he still has the OS install CD that came with the Mac. If he does stick the CD in the drive and hold down the C key while it starts up. It should boot from the CD. If the problem is with the OS and not the drive itself, you can just reinstall the OS and everything else that was on the drive should still be fine.
-S
RoboG2:
Well, my friend apparently got his wording wrong. He thought the hard drive was the actual system itself. So the system does not turn on at all. I still havent been over there yet, but thanks for the rplies.
shmokes:
There is absolutely nothing that could cause that besides the power supply. Unless it's one of a few other things like the motherboard, but seriously it's probably the power supply.
That's good news.
DrewKaree:
In case that power supply is too expensive, it's a Mac. Tell him to give it to his wife to turn into some artsy fartsy thing for around the house, like a fabric covered doorstop or some other girly-crappfty thing....or use the shell for something sci-fi looking.
Macs are cool looking. Usually.