> I have a Power Mac 6500 machine, with an installed G 3 400 CPU. I have an external second Hard drive. I installed Firewire/USB card to which I connected this external hard drive, using a firewire port. I copied my entire 4 Gig original Hard drive to the external 40 gig HD, including the OS 9.1 operating system folder, as a backup.
M sez: Try this: Put your System CD in the CD-ROM drive and wait for it to mount on the Desktop. Open up your StartUp Disk control panelon your active System. It should show all of your hard drives, volumes and partitions, including the internal ATA drive, external FW drive and CD volumes. Select the FireWire drive and restart your computer. If the computer starts up off the OS9.1 on the external FW drive then there you go. If you get a flashing question mark instead or a blank folder just wait for fifteen or twenty seconds and the computer startup script will give up on your preferred choice and move along to the internal HD or the CD-ROM drive. If the flashing question mark persists, restart the computer holding down the C key to get the CD system loaded. Once you have your Desktop back open the StartUp Disk CDEV and re-select the internal ATA HD. Restart. M -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
