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Jody
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I replaced hard drive but no dvd drive and can't boot.
My hard drive failed and I replaced it with a new drive. I have a powermac g4 quicksilver with a dvd drive that I have connected with a firewire and tried to use as host in target mode. I don't really know what I'm doing. I tried to copy the hard drive to my mini but I still get a classic face and ? blinking on restart. Any advice on how to this correctly would be most appreciated.
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mactech plus
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There are issues that pop up when trying to install a system from one platform to another. I take it your internal DVD drive in the Mac Mini doesn't work since you are not loading it from your Mac Mini. ( if your internal Mac Mini DVD works just load it directly ) You really need to install directly to the Mac Mini to make sure the right info gets loaded. After it is loaded you can Migrate your other data into it. The easiest way to go about it is replace your defective Mac Mini DVD Drive with a good one. They sell them here at iFixit for between $79-$89. You indicate you changed the Hard Drive so you already know the inside of the machine. If you do not have the cash to replace the drive you can pull the DVD drive from your QuickSilver and hook it up to your FireWire port on the MiniMac with an external case and load directly. When done put the drive back.
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mayer
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Try putting the drive in the Quicksilver and formating it. You can then install a system or use something like "SuperDuper to clone the QuickSilver drive. Now you can put it in the Mini. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/S...
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