If your Mac won't power up, there will be no power to the hard drive. You will have to pull it out of it's housing and put it into an external drive case.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > So even thought it won't power up I can plug the hard drive in via firewire > ---even without power??--and use it as a remote drive? > That would be fantastic!! > > > > ------- Original Message ------- > From : Nolan Porterfield[mailto:[email protected]] > Sent : 2/4/2009 10:35:26 PM > To : [email protected] > Cc : > Subject : RE: [MacGroup] dead lampshade > > Ann, > > My prized little lampshade went out about 3 months ago, after 8 years of > trouble-free service. I had hoped it would last longer than me, but that > was not to be. Just in time, while the lampshade was showing bad symptoms, I > bought a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, which I am quite pleased with -- next > best thing to a lampshade, and the 20" flat screen monitor is nifty. While > all this was happening, the Apple store here in Bowling Green diagnosed (for > $35) th e lampshade and determined that the logic board was defunct, and as > you probably know replacing it would cost more than the computer was > worth. But in case you don't know, it's a fairly easy process to get stuff > off the dead lampshade HD and transfer it to the new 'puter. All it takes > is a firewire connection. So I keep the lampshade on my desk near the new > one, and often discover that I need some file on the lampshade that I had > otherwise forgotten about. Just in case you don't know about this. > > Nolan > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be February 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be February 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
