Buyig CD drive to boot Lombard from -need advice

I I am thinking of buying a CD drive for my Lombard G3 M5343 bronze laptop. I need a CD drive so I can Boot OS. currently I just have a third party DVD drive that I cannot boot from.
The question is can I boot from this drive(e-bay):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130106605876
Mac Bronze Lombard/Pismo G3 Powerbook CD-ROM M7388 24x~x'lnt shape! ~
Tested good 24x CD-ROM drives for Mac Bronze Lombard or Pismo G3 Powerbooks. CD-ROM model Number: M7388.
Lombard Powerbook G3 M5343   Mac OS 9.0.x  

As advised before by cornelius, it could be wiser to look at a computer store for a replacement part (warranty, return, more secure than eBay).
An other good address is http://www.ifixit.com (can't say anything about this company, but they are providing nice DIY guides).

Similar Messages

  • Install Windows 7 on external drive and boot iMac from it?

    Hi everyone,
    I want to use Windows 7 on my iMac, I would like to install Windows 7 on an external drive and boot my iMac from this external drive. Is this possible? If yes, any good tutorials?
    (I am aware of virtual machines, but am wondering if I can do the above).
    Thank you.

    Forget trying to use Windows 7 that way.
    Add another internal drive to your iMac.
    Not knowing which iMac whether you have dual SATA internal like the 2011s.
    Those were not "tutorials" but just whatever Google would come up with (a good start but not tutorials or dealing with 7 or hope of success, yes?)
    Why? to avoid what you forsee as complications? Not "dirty" or interfere?
    Windows tools exist for Windows to import and image and deploy.
    You can run Mac OS on any bootable external.

  • New hard drive not booting osx from external

    Hi guys, I currently installed a new hard drive into my macbook, and I tried holding down the alt//option key to try and boot osx from my external hard drive ((Connected through USB)) but nothing happens.  My mouse cursor appears, but nothing shows up.  I tried 5 minutes ago to make sure that I was actually able to boot to my external drive from my old hard drive, and it worked perfectly.  But nothing shows up on this end.  Any help or suggestions?
    thanks!

    any one have any insight?

  • Can I install windows 7 on a potable Hard Drive using boot camp? or any other way to do so?? need help for college please

    I need to use windows in order to use Visual C++ for college but I don't have enough space in my internal Hard Drive so I want to install windows 7using boot camp or any other method on a portable hard drive and boot from it.
    Please help I need it as soon as possible for school. Thanks

    You can't boot Windows natively except on internal drives.
    You can use a VM and put the VM image (VHD) anywhere any drive you want.
    You are way too low on disk space, seriously so. And no room - even Windows and Mac OS should be warning and balking already.
    "emulator" is an old-school term, even true, running a Guest OS under Mac's as a virtual machine, shared resources (RAM, processor) is easier but not the same performance level as running natively.
    Comparison of VMware Fusion Parallels VirtualBox
    This just posted, an FAQ for Lion and Boot Camp 4.0
    Boot Camp 4.0, OS X Lion: Frequently asked questions

  • Hi, I have a hard disk failure so to recover my data I am using disk utility to restore the data on an external drive while booting from a second external hard drive. When I perform the operation it gives me an input/output error and stops. Any tips?

    Hi, I have a hard disk failure so to recover my data I am using disk utility to restore the data on an external drive while booting from a second external hard drive. When I perform the operation and after having selected both my destination and source drives, the operation begins but soon fails due to input/output error. If I try to create an image of the drive it gives me the same error message. Any help would be much appreciated.

    Disk Utility only creates a image of the drive, so it's no help getting exactly what you want, which is your files. If the file structure is messed up or the drive is failing then it's no help.
    If you have a external boot drive and you can't access the internal non-booting drive though the typical Finder and windows to transfer your files via drag and drop methods, then you need to install Data Rescue on the external boot drive and it will do as best as it can to recover your files. (works on non-encrypted/non-Filevaulted drives only)
    .Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
    Are you sure you have hard drive failure, or that OS X isn't merely not booting?
    Because if the drive is working physically, then there is a host of fixes
    ..Step by Step to fix your Mac
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents#/

  • I'd like to carry my system, applications and files on a portable Thunderbolt ssd drive and boot from it.  I have a Mac Pro in the office, iMac at home

    I'd like to carry my system, applications and files on a portable Thunderbolt ssd drive and boot from it.  I have a Mac Pro in the office, iMac at home, a MacBook Air for when I'm on the road, all with TB.  Can a single external TB drive boot all three hardware configurations successfully?  I've been told that differences in hardware configurations between the systems make this impossible.  Is this correct?

    Piece or peace of cake really though.
    A quick install on new hard drive or SSD or 10K and less than an hour to move everything over properly.
    YOU looked for a quick fix and found none and all the brick walls.
    It is not  days of work to do a clean install and migrate.
    There are few if any apps that need to be freshly installed either though there are updates needed for them to be compliant, any driver or plugin also and that is done ahead of time with research.
    And your backup or clone of your system is taken care of - you leave the old system boot drive 'as is' untouched.
    Also, better strategy to move most all your home folder (except for its own ~/Library) to ANOTHER disk drive and not on t he system drive at all.
    As for applications on its own drive or 3rd party, beeen there done that, even SSD or 15K SCSI - no benefit in performance or organization.

  • 2013 new Mac Pro will not boot up from and external hard drive

    New 2013 MAC PRO running Yosemite will not not see a bootable external hard drive when starting up using option key?  Same External hard drive will boot up on 2013 Mac Book Pro running Yosemite.

    Reading between tea leaves sometimes leaves some things to imagination.
    You used SuperDuper latest version that was recently upgraded for Yosemite on a laptop running 10.10 (or even 10.9.3+) that is in a X-brand USB3 drive enclosure, not bus powered btw, moved it to the nMP and plugged it into a direct port, not going through a hub (monitors have hubs of course and there is only one real bus+controller on the nMP that ALL USB3 travels through.
    Thunderbolt and self-powered would be nice but they cost a bit more.
    I have read where Carbon Copy Cloner (now v 4.x) worked where others failed. I use to use both but have used CCC since its inception and use back in 10.2.2 forward along with SD! for a few years based on comments here.
    Drivers missing? someone compared system extensions and found the ones needed for say the nMP are not there? how about running a 10.10.1 combo update and see if that changes - we USE to be able to apply updates to a system that we were not booted from, very handy (could update a sparse disk image of a system that way, one created with CCC).
    WD Passports seem popular with laptop users, but they come here to this forum complaining that it doesn't work, disappears off the bus (spins down goes to sleep, acts like a green drive acts).

  • Need to boot Linux from USB

    I have been trying to get this to work for a while now but it appears with the current firmware it is just not possible to boot a Linux OS from a usb drive.
    Is this true? or is there a way it can be done?
    Basically I work in a forensic computing lab and as our portable forensic machines we have a total of 16 MacBook Pro's all the same spec set up to dual boot WinXP and Leopard.
    So far they've been excellent giving us the benefits of both OS's to run the different forensic tools on.
    My problem is i need to boot a linux distro from a portable drive (USB or Firewire is fine but USB would be better) for a particular purpose.
    As you can imagine, our system gets filled with loads of rubbish and we need to clean them regularly so i have created an install from a wiped drive containing everything we need on the drive. I have then created some scripts in Linux that use dcfldd to create an image of the entire drive and compress it to about 13GB.
    I also created another script that puts the image back on the internal drive.
    This basically allows me to put clean "forensically" secure images back on the laptops within about an hour. i can also then update any software etc before creating a new up to date image.
    Currently I have to use a Linux boot CD to start the laptop with an external drive attached holding the scripts and image. i would like to just have a bootable thumb drive that holds everything and be able to start from it by holding the option key, put the image on the internal drive and reboot. its very quick except from the booting and running from CD whereas a small puppy linux build or similar would be very quick. And because we sometimes have to do this onsite speed is a major issue.
    Am i correct in thinking that the firmware just doesn't allow it or has anyone managed to get this to work?
    If it is the firmware, does anyone know if there is an update on the horizon that will remedy this problem?
    I should state i have tried many linux builds (using MBR and GPT options etc) and refit and nothing allows the drive to boot with refit stating the firmware has limited support for legacy systems on USB.
    I also know that I CAN (and have tried) using a Mac OS installed on the USB drive but it appears to have its own problems. it is fine when the internal drive is empty but because in my case it has an OS on it the system actually seems to use some of the components of the internal drive so when trying to image over it i get conflicts. The Mac OS also takes a lot of room on the drive when i just want a stream lined OS for this job.
    The main reason i don't want to use Mac OS though is that i plan to later add images for our doing our lab machines which are PCs and would therefore not boot the Mac OS.
    If anyone can help with this I would be grateful.
    Cheers
    Chris

    Most Linux distros will not boot from USB devices as is. I believe you're in luck with Ubuntu because there are some methods of running it from USB flash drives that just may do the trick for you. I ran across this when looking into putting Ubuntu on my MSI Wind.
    Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick | USB Pen Drive Linux.webloc;
    On the Ubuntu site look for information in the documentation for installing on pendrives.
    I'm pretty sure that the methods for booting from USB flash drives will apply to any USB drive. From what I learned Linux simply isn't set up to boot from a flash drive or USB drive without some effort on the part of the installer. I've never done this myself so I can't tell you what to do only some pointers to where you may find how to do it.
    After my experience using Ubuntu on my Wind I decided it wasn't worth the effort involved. OS X is simply much better than Linux in every respect. I just wasn't interested in becoming any geekier than I already am. I had enough of that 20 years ago!

  • SATA Hardrive, Problems booting/formatting from one drive

    I have the K8N Neo and can not format drive without it crashing (blue screen)
    I think its probally just a config problem in the bios. What setting in the bios should the raid be set at and do I need the raid drivers provided with the board? The serial hard drive is booting from one drive only not mirroring etc. This is the second hard drive I have tried both doing the same things.
    Please help this is driving me crazy.

    It doesnt say anything about setting up the raid on these pages in the manual I have.
    Ok the initial option enables the raid then there ate 2 more options to enable, SATA1&2 etc and ones relating to master/slave etc do any of these need to be changed on when using single hard drive. I have the MSI Nforce 2 board running a singe hard drive settings are alot different. Also does the dive have to be configured in any way using the raid bios ie setting it to stripe as in the Nforce 2 boards etc

  • IBook wont boot up from Firewire Drive - it used to

    I've been struggling with my G3 iBook for the last few weeks. It's a long story...
    My initial problem started when the beachball started spinning and spinning for the smallest little thing. I would have a single program running but it would still keep spinning. I repaired disk permissions and ran MacJanitor. MacJanitor would take more than 40 minutes to complete running. It usually used to take less than 5 minutes.
    I called the local Apple dealer (no Apple Stores here) and they suggested that I reinstall the OS. I reinstalled the OS, but that didn't result in any improvement. A few days later I got a warning from the HDD S.M.A.R.T. status saying that the internal HDD was failing.
    I didn't have a backup of my internal HDD so I went out and got myself an external 3.5" Firewire HDD. I then used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the internal drive to the HDD. Cloning itself took about 8 hours - I assume because of the problem with the internal HDD. I then went to the system preferences to make the external HDD as the startup disk. I then erased the internal HDD. My iBook was booting up and running at normal speed using the external Firewire HDD.
    Last night I noticed the beachball spinning again. It was late so I shut down the iBook. When I tried to startup the iBook this morning , the Apple symbol came up on the screen, and a few minutes later a Circle with a slash symbol across it. The iBook would not boot up. I tried this a couple of times with no success.
    I reinstalled the OS on the internal HDD - took about 3.5 hours. I am now working off the internal drive. When I plug in the Firewire drive it shows up on the desktop. When i go to system preference I can select the Firewire drive as the startup disk - BUT when I restart the iBook it does not boot up from the external Firewire HDD. I also noticed that I cannot access my documents, pictures, MP3's on my Firewire Drive when I look through the contents - Did I lose them, or just don't have priveleges??
    I am not sure what the problem is and why the iBook refuses to boot up from the external firewire drive. The internal drive still shows the SMART status as failing, and I am not in a position to replace it right away. I need to be able to get my iBook to boot back up from the Firewire Drive.
    Please help
    Thanks
    Vir

    I managed to get the problem sorted out.
    I first started the iBook from the internal HDD and then went to System Preference to select the startup disk. I selected MAC OS 9 on the external HDD as the start up disk.
    The iBook started up from the external Firewire drive using OS 9. OS 9 also showed that the iBook had not sut down properly the last time and verified the disk. Once I got the iBook started in OS 9 I went to the Control panel and then to Startup Disk. I noticed that I had 2 versions of OS X on the external Firewire HDD - one which said "OS 10.x.x previous system" and another which said OX 10.x.x. (When I select startup disk from OS 10.x.x it does not show both these options, only OS 10.x.x) I remembered that when I was reinstalling the OS (as recommended by the Apple Dealer) my settings etc were saved as "previous system". I seleected "OS 10.x.x " not "OS 10.x.x previous sytem" on the external HDD and re-started and it booted up ok.
    My question here is - why does this additional startup option show up on OS 9 but not on OS 10? I figure that the iBook was trying to startup from OS "10.x.x. previous system" when it actually should have needed to startup from "OS 10.x.x.". This problem must have occured when I shut down ...
    Is it ok to delete the OS X.x.x.previous system folder without losing any data etc??
    Thanks
    Vir

  • Can I boot into Windows XP from a firewire enclosed Hard Drive? Boot Camp

    I understand you can install XP (as long as it has service pack 2 or 3) on an Intel Mac using Boot Camp, but I was wondering if it would be possible to take a HD from a PC computer which already has XP installed, and, using an firewire HD enclosure, boot the Mac into XP from that. Would this be feasible?

    Yes, but not exactly. The page says:
    "Can I install Windows on an external drive?
    No. Installing Boot Camp on an external hard drive is not supported."
    But I don't want to install Windows, I want to boot my computer into it.
    It also says:
    "External FireWire disks are not recognized by the Startup Disk control panel in Microsoft Windows. To start up from a bootable external drive, press and hold the Option (Alt) key while the computer starts up, then select the external disk."
    I don't mind if external disks won't appear under Windows, as long as I can still boot into it.
    I found another helpful post:bootcamp windows 7 Firewire external drive NTFS?
    Here someone writes:
    "I still use Windows XP with my Mac but still never had such a problem with my two Firewire external HDs (one FW400 and one FW800).
    And I did a lot of things with these
    Partioned one for use with OSX and Windows (one HFS+ partition; one NTFS partition); copied my complete MP3-collection (180GB) from one external HD to the other; etc.
    All without any kind of glitch or slowdown."
    So it seems this person was successful in booting XP from an external drive. Windows 7 or Vista on the other hand will encounter problems booting, which that tread explains.
    In another thread (Boot camp on an external hard drive) someone wrote:
    "I believe there might be a way, I just haven't gotten around to trying this out.
    1) use disk utility to partition the external drive to ntfs (i think)
    2) attach this disk to a pc and install the OS
    3) install refit onto your mac
    4) attach the drive via fw800, or even better yet esata, to you mac.
    5) Start up your mac
    6) choose the win xp option from the boot menu
    7) install bootcamp drivers
    this seems, in theory, that it should work."
    So from what I gather, I think this method would probably work, I just want to know if anyone had any specific knowledge regarding this subject.
    From here I only have two questions:
    Is it possible to take a working drive from a PC which already has XP installed, and change the format to ntfs under OSX without damaging the drive or OS?
    And, would I need a version of XP with service pack 2 or 3, or will anything do, since we are not installing it with Bootcamp, we are only running it under Bootcamp at this point.
    Thanks for any help!

  • Booting macbook from external hard drive- Is it doable?

    I've had my white macbook since 2006. (I LOVE IT) However, I'd like to use it as a "desktop" until I can get a mac mini. Is it possible to move EVERYTHING thats on it to an external hard drive (terabyte) and boot it up from there? Also, once I get the mac mini, will I be able to restore the macbook to its "original" state? I ask this because I only have a little over 6gigs left on my hard drive. (Lots of music, graphics, videos and apps) I bought a terabyte to free up some space, but still haven't been able to free up enough to make a difference. I am assuming (and i could be wrong) that I could just take everything on the mac and move it to the hard drive, boot it from there, and all will be well in the world.
    So is it doable? (If it is… I might not even need to get the mac mini.)
    Thanks a bunch in advance for any help...
    "O"

    Yes.
    First, Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
    Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
    If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
    Second, Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
    Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
    Select the destination volume from the left side list.
    Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
    Check the box labeled Erase destination.
    Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
    Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
    Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
    Destination means the external drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
    Third, Open Startup Disk preferences, change the startup disk to the external drive, then click on the Restart button. The computer will now permanently boot from the external drive.

  • Booting up from external hard drive

    I'm about to take the plunge and install Leopard. But first, I am backing up all data on an external harddrive. My question is, should the worst happen, how do I use the external as a bootable harddrive? (Am I saying this right?) How do I boot up from the external?
    Also, can I keep that and run Tiger after I successfully install Leopard? In case I need to run a classic program, which Tiger does and from what I read Leopard doesn't handle?
    thanks for any advice for a mac user and not a programmer!

    Presuming that the external has a valid copy of Mac OS X, either through installing from the system disks or Mac OS X install disk or by making a clone of your current boot drive (via a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper), then you just hold down the Option key while starting, or restarting, the Mac. You'll be presented with a list of bootable drives and you can just choose the external.
    can I keep that and run Tiger after I successfully install Leopard?
    Presuming you're referring to Tiger on the external drive, yes, you certainly can.
    In case I need to run a classic program, which Tiger does and from what I read Leopard doesn't handle?
    You are correct; Leopard no longer supports the Classic environment.
    Regards.

  • The circuit of my macbook is dead yet the hard drive is fine.  I need to access a file from the hard drive, how can i do this? is there a cable i can connect to another mac that will let me transfer the file?

    The circuit of my macbook is dead yet the hard drive is fine.  I need to access a file from the hard drive, how can i do this? The mac turns on the screen freezes as bright blue.  Is there a cable i can connect to another mac that will let me transfer the file?

    There is another option if the Macbook will start up in Target Disk Mode.
    Restart the computer while holding down the T key. If you see the firewire symbol moving around on the screen you can connect this one to another one in TDM. You will need a suitable cable to connect the two Macs.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1661
    Firewire symbol:

  • SOS!! SOS!! HELP ME!!! The mobo won't load/boot windows from the SCSI Drive!!! HELP!!!

    Ok so i got the board and the crucial RAM with a new enermax 450W power supply. I am running the 1MB A64 3400+ CG on this board.
    I am using the Seagate cheetah 15.3K SCSI drive with a LSI 21320 SCSI controller
    (http://www.lsilogic.com/products/ultra320_host_bus_adapters/lsi21320.html )
    I am also running a IDE drive on the primary IDE channel set as slave.
    I went to the bios and changed the boot order to use the SCSI HD as the first boot device and proceed to intall windows XP. I pressed F6 to install the SCSI drivers and everything went fine until the reboot after all the files has been copied. I would get an error message saying something like:
    "NTLDR cannot find boot drive etc"
    I have no idea what to do...i tried everything and i am 100% sure that its not my SCSI HD or SCSI card.
    PLZZZZ HELP ME!!!!!!! PLZZZ HELP!!!!!

    Found it set your boot order to bootable add in card first in the screen shown here courtesy of HardOCP : http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA4MjM1MDg3NWxrOFNyWHJRcTNfMl8yNl9sLmdpZg==
    That should do ya.
    Also be sure that the LSI controller is configured to use the Seagate drive to boot from. There is usually an option of which channel to boot from in the HBA BIOS.

Maybe you are looking for