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My Powerbook G3 Pismo seemingly eats Hard drives? - 2008/08/11 09:53i recently purchased a 400mhz 6gb Powerbook G3 pismo on ebay for a very reasonable price thinking it would be an easy fix but im coming across problems that are well over my head and i wondered if anyone could provide some help or shed some light.
when my new laptop arrived it would not boot up, so i disconnected the PRAM battery and it booted up! but extremely slowly.... this was undoubtably a HDD issue so i rebooted the machine and it would no longer start up....
luckily i had a 30GB laptop drive with OSX 10 installed on it, i swapped out the hard drives and booted up the Pismo, unfortunately i re-booted the machine and it would no longer start up, the hard drive just made loud scratching noises and the HDD no longer works in any machine.
so i got ANOTHER hard drive for the pismo, a 4GB one with OSX 10 installed. this worked absolutely fine. i re-booted the laptop and it worked! it finally worked!
after leaving it on charge for a couple of hours i was pretty horrified to find that although the machine booted up, instead of the familiar OSX apple logo i was presented with a "no entry" symbol.
this is something i have never come across before and i hope that someone could please help me save my Pismo!
many thanks,
Sam
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Re:My Powerbook G3 Pismo seemingly eats Hard drives? - 2008/08/18 21:50Take a close look at the hard drive ribbon cable. Especially where it bends. I had one that was shorting out and would eat drives.
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