[KoJo1701]

So my beautiful and fully upgrade (to its max) Keylime iBook G3 died under mysterious circumstances, and after pulling out the hard drive, the tech i took it too assured me that the hard drive works well, it was the motherboard that went. He told me to just get a new computer and an external enclosure and access my data that way. Since I'm one of those fools who always meant to back up my music and such, I'm now held hostage by my Hard Drive.

Since I'm on a budget, and forever in love with the older style macs, i purchased a used G3 iMac in Pink that operates OS 10.4 very nicely. But the external drive will not mount to my desktop. Any help? Am I missing something painfully simple? or is this a bigger problem?

Thanks!!
Kurt

[Folker]

While I am by no means an authority on the subject, what sort of external do you have? I take it your G3 is using USB 1.1, but maybe not (firewire?). The obvious things would be to make sure your cables are attached and work. Did you check your system profiler to see if it's recognized there? I'm having similar problems, but only with an external cd-rw. I was told to disable various authoring extensions through extensions manager, and while that helped with some issues, the machine still does not recognize the external drive. in my case, i think Toast is the culprit, but not sure. I'd be happy to share the disable instructions i got from apple support/discussins if you'd like.

[KoJo1701]

Turns out I was missing something simple. the drive is shot and needs to be repaired. But thanks for the advice