ibook g3 hard drive problem?

Question

i have a g3 and when it boots, it shows a shite screen with a folder icon and a question mark, meaning it cant boot the hard drive or the HD isnt connected. i was gona connect the hard drive but i dont know whether it is more convinient to access it from the bottom, by taking off the whole bottom part, or throught teh top, when you take of the keyboard, and then a few other parts.

also does anyone know if the harware test and other cd's that come with itm i lost the, are they somehow accesable from online

Answer 1

Try re-setting the pram by holding the Apple+option+P+R keys while starting your computer until you hear the startup chime three times.

Answer 2

Getting the hard drive out of g3 iBooks is a real bear. You have to take about a thousand microscopic screws out. Any OS X instal disk should be able to test the hard drive.
Don't spend too much money on that computer. They were very unreliable. We've had almost every one our company bought go bad.

Answer 3

there is not any optimal length, yet there's a shrink to how maximum of the size of an inner HDD is functional to the iBook. the indoors HDD would be considered as 128GB regardless of if it somewhat is larger than 128GB, so any HDD greater suitable than 128GB (advertized as 137GB) would be a waste of the greater fee. you could deploy Intech's SpeedTools driving force to get an stronger length to be functional. opposite to three "ex-spurts" claims which you will partition apersistent to conquer this shrink, it somewhat is a hardware shrink that may no longer relating to partitions. The shrink is for inner HDD basically. An externalpersistent isn't limited.... properly, no longer for any length of HDD bought immediately.