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Ibook, Powerbook and winxp?
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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My daughter's 700 mhz Ibook died, it did not like being droped, logic board has a short now.. sob.. HOWEVER! I bought her a new Powerbook! Yeah, she loves it.. However, however,, she needs the information from her old Ibook's hardrive. So, ever the clevor fellow that I am, I bought a USB harddrive external box with drivers and stuff. Took out her old Ibook drive and so-posedly there's nothing to it. The new powerbook 15" 1.5 mhz, all's you're so-post-to do is, just plug it in and wa-la, two drives! But, Nope, that didn't do it. I guess,.. as the seller's say; you might have to plug it into two USB ports to give the drive enough power. Would be no problem with the older Powerbooks, because, the USB ports are on one side of them. But alas the new ones? there's one on one side, and one on the other. Of course, the cord on the USB external hard drive, (there's two for more power) it is only 8 inches long, and her new powerbook is a 15 incher. So, there's no way to give this thing more power without aditional tasks.
Perhaps I can get an extention USB cord and plug it in. Or, I perfer windows and have discovered, if I plug this into two USB ports on my windows computer, the drive spins. But as I guess, winxp, it is not going to read this drive. My computer sees it, it says it is there but I can not open it. So, I was wondering if there is a way I can read this drive in windows and copy the stuff she needs on a CD from my winxp system? Then she can get her homework and other stuff she needs off this drive, (winxp copied cd) and copy it on her new mac..
Yes? No?
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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I believe the only way to get windows to read HFS or HFS+ is to pay money for a utility that can do it.
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15 inch MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 7200 RPM 100GB HDD.
Dual 2.5 GHz Power Mac G5, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, ATI Radeon X800XT.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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I know it's kind of convuluted, but couldn't you set the external drive on top of the wrist rests on the power book? the you could just just plug a cable into each side. Since it would only be temporary, I don't see the harm in that. Otherwise just dig around your computer for a longer USB cable. (check your printer, if you have one. you can probably borrow that one to do the copying.)
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15" Macbook Pro 1.83 2 GB RAM
Blackbook 13.3 Powerhouse 2 GB RAM
MacMini Dual Core 2 GB RAM (Sadly running Windows Most of the time)
Numerouse Workstations running windows and Linux. Sorry don't have the specs, I don't pay much attention to them anymore. :)
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles of the East
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I read that you had a short in your logic board, but did you ever try target disk mode from your iBook to your PB?
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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To Access Mac Media from Windows try HFVExplorer or HFS Utilities
This should work for hfs volumes. I don't know how good it is for hfs+.
To avoid problems next time buy a combined firewire/usb case. For Macs firewire is the best choice 
To get things back on the new Mac its better to format the drive with fat32 and copy everything back (if the file sizes are all below 2GB). Macs can read Fat32. Thus you don't have to burn a 100 CDs.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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DO NOT CROSS-POST! YOU MAY ONLY POST A THREAD IN ONE FORUM.
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