Hi, I want to say thanks for all the patient replies I've been getting for my probably dunder-headed questions concerning my upgrade for my beige G3. I'm starting to get nervous because the guy I left it with still has it (a week later) and yesterday all he could tell me was how much worse Macs work than PCs. I'm thinking I should just tell him to give it back to me and see if I can put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
This was my last question to the list (which may have been buried by the Norton v. Disk Aid v. TTP debate -- I use TTP and have been very happy with it): This is a beige G3 300 MHz rev 2. The *tech* guy got OSX.2 onto the new Segate 20GB 7200 drive. He has that as the master drive. He left the old original 8GB drive in there as a slave drive but whenever he tries to get to it it gives him a message asking if he wants to format the drive. He's tried switiching the drives around (master/slave), he tried putting it in another machine but still gets that message. He decided to plug the drive into a PC and get at my data using Mac Opener and he says that works fine so he says there isn't anything mechanically wrong. I suspect that there is something he was supposed to do (that he doesn't know what he was supposed to do) that he didn't do and that's why it keeps wanting to initialize the disk. Does anyone know what is going on? I don't *need* two drives in there and if I have OSX on the new drive I don't know if it matters but if I *can* have two drives I'd like that. I'm also not averse to the option of just bringing the thing home and trying to figure it out myself. The only problem is that all my old data is on the 8GB drive (even though I have a minimal backup) and I'd rather not have to reinstall everything I use in 9 if I don't have to. Any ideas? suggestions? Thanks again for all the help and advice Anastasia Coles -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
