The Barbers wrote:
>
> Murray,
>
> Not to resurrect a dead thread, but: when my Starmax received a new
> battery and still wouldn't start because there was no IDE drive
> attached, I put in just such an IDE hard drive. The computer started
> right up from the Starmax CD. The drive was from a PC, Windows and all.
> When the computer sequence reached the process of displaying the
> desktop, it automatically "rebuilt the desktop" on the PC drive. (I
> believe that I briefly saw a message about PC Exchange or something
> similar.) After a very, very long time it finished and the drive was
> there with all the files displayed.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Bill
Wow! Is the Mac that versatile? Just as a point of clarification, when
you say didn't start up, did you mean no screen with an icon? I started
my max with no IDE drive or CD the first time after a new battery and it
went up to the blinking ?.
Bob
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