I have a Mac G4 Cube whos USB ports are dead. It works fine otherwise but I can not use the keyboard (or any other USB device) to start up in firewire target disk mode. \n\nWhat can I do to recover my data? \n\nThere has to be something I'm not thinking about without having to spend a lot of money on this otherwise outdated computer.
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As long as the partition table is intact you should be able to remove the hard disk, attach it to another desktop mac and copy yur files to it.  You could also remove the disk and place it in a firewire enclosure and do the same.  I recommend  strongly not to back up to a windows machine, but if you do, make sure it is saved on an ntfs partition or your files will be damaged.
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http://www.1394ta.org/About/products/computer_products.html#Storage%20Devices\n\ntry u'r luck\n\ntake it to a friend, who has a pc running win xp & having firewire port, connect u'r Ikebana Fireblaster external hard drive\n\nsee if it works ... u can then decide best
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It sounds like the memory stick has gone bad. unfortunately past performance is no indicator of present or future performance and just because it was ok yesterday doesn't mean that it will be ok today.\n\nThere is plenty of software out there which attempts to recover data from courrupt memory sticks and most will allow you to download them free so that you can check if the recovery successfully find all your files. if it does you will have to pay to actually gain the recovery ability.
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Then your disk is probably corrupted. As in something inside the thing has broke and Windows can't access the thing properly. You might need to replace the flash mem card.
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Hi there:\n\nI answer this question all the time.\n\nHERE is a complete copy and paste of the last ANSWER I gave, which has all the information you need. As you state, you DO NOT WANT to format or scandisk or defrag, or anything that touches the tracks on your floppy !\n\nSEE below:\n\n@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@\n\nI lost my data I saved on floppy?\n\nI saved some email messages on a floppy disc and brought it home from work and went to look at them on my computer at home and when I tried to open the floppy it said disco not formatted would you like to format now yes no. Have I lost my data? What should I do?\nAdditional Details\n\nthey are no longer in my email. just on floppy. If i take it back to work will it work there it did the other day.\n\nBest Answer - Chosen by Asker\n\nHi there:\n\nYou have probably NOT lost any data.\nFloppy copy and read problems are VERY common, and people have forgotten how to use them and maintain them.\n\nI looked at the two other answers before mine. The first states that you lost everything. _ WRONG !!\nThe second states that you are using a different operating system ( WRONG -- a floppy is a floppy is floppy unless you are using a MAC vs PC, and even you would be smart enough to know that they are different !)\n[[ Another rare situation is where you are using an OLD, 3 1/4 inch floppy on one machine, and a "new" 3 1/4 inch floppy drive on another machine, since the DRIVES Themselves, are different FORMATS ( the operating systems ( DOS, WIndows would be the same, and understand both formatting systems, but the mechanical heads and tracks are different ! ) There a dozens of different Floppy read/writers, and different FORMATs and sizes. The first IBM PC shipped with no harddrive, no floppy, and 16K of ram. There was a big DIN plug identical to the old keyboard plug, that you plugged in a cable that went to your Audio Cassette player, to load programs.. Then came the full height, single sided, low density, 5 1/2 inch floppy, then the high density, then the low density, two sided floppy, then the two sided High density floppy. Then all of these were replaced with the LOW density 3 1/4 inch floppy, and later the High Density 3 1/4 inch.\nIFF you have a normal, modern 3 1/4 inch HIGH density disk writer at the office, and try to use it in the ancient 3 1/4 LOW density disk unit at home, the older low density machine will not know what the tracks on the floppy are - it will be reading two tinier high density tracks at the same time and get garbage data.\nThe odds of you having a 720 K floppy Machine at home, and a 1.44 Meg floppy Unit at work, are almost zero, but I thought I would mention it ! ) ]]\nThe second answer states to but the floppy BACK in the originating computer, and this actually WOULD have a high success rate.\n\nTHE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO " NOT " scandisk, or defrag or touch the floppy in ANY WAY.\nMake your disk ' holy " at once, and prevent any writing of any kind, by flipping the little tab down so that BOTH HOLES on the corners are open ( holy disk ), so that your disk is protected from evil ( programs that WRITE or try to repair it- which would destroy YOUR data in the process of " repairing " the tracks -- they do not give a hoot about YOUR data, only in re-viving the useability of the disk -- BEWARE ! ! )\n\nThere are many precautions in using floppies. The first, is to ALWAYS FULL FORMAT ( not the silly "quick format" ) the disk before writing to it, even if it is NEW and out of the package...\n\nThe other problem is the LACK of use of ordinary floppy drive machines. They continually build up layers of dust, and when people DO go to use them, they gum up the heads with dirt. There are floppy cleaner disks available at most computer stores and dollar stores, and you SHOULD clean them if they have not been in use very much...\n\nAnother problem is the slight variation in the HEAD size, and the HEAD alignment, of different fl
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You can accomplish this in one of 2 ways\n1. Use an external firewire DVD drive \n2. Use another Mac in firewire target disk mode\nhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
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If it's a firewire external drive AND the Mac and PC are part of a network then read Sharing a FireWire drive over a network.\nhttp://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sharefwdrive.html
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Sometimes switching USB ports works. Plug the printer into the modems port and put the modem in another port. Keep switching your USB around and rebooting to see what works. That often works, I have done it a lot with my three printers, keyboard, two external drives and a modem. Every time I add something I have to "rearrange". I think it may be related to the boot order but I have never been able to prove it.\n\nGood luck.
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There is probably someone trolling this forum right now instead of answering the phone like they are supposed to.  \n\nI have a small footprint flexible usb keyboard (it's rubber) that would make a fine temporary replacement.  \n\nGot it at CompUSA. \n\nIt's not perfect, but it beats not having a laptop.
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If the hard drives aren't being detected by another PC and not even by the BIOS there's two possible problems.  The hard drive control board is fried or the interface cable is bad.  If you aren't sure about the jumpers remove them and plug the black connector into the drive, that way it's the only drive and it will set as master, if it works you know it will be the jumpers.  Usually moving the jumpers to the far left setting sets the drive to Cable Select, on your IDE cable black is mater and grey is slave, try that.\n\nAlso, is the drive even coming online, you'll here it when power is applied, if it is not even doing that then you can rest assured your drive is dead and pretty much unrepairable or irrecoverable save a miracle, though there are data restoration services, they charge by the megabyte.\n\nI'd say that if you have it plugged into power and at least just try having one connected on the black IDE connector and it does nothing, like I said, it's dead.
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Hello iveybanana,\n\nI agree with the above folk's suggestions.  First, go to your local mac store and get them to take a look at it.  They can check it out and see what you may need to be done.  Some of the older Norton Disk Doctors will actually screw things up with your Mac.  It will be good for the technician to check this stuff out for you.\n\nAlso, you really need to look at Mac OS X alternatives.  Many of the Classic Mac programs have already updated their software to work even better in Mac OS X.  If not, then there are other software companies that have created better alternatives to use.  \n\nI have slowly moved on up to where I don't even use Classic applications anymore.  You should be seeing where Mac OS X is far superior to what you've been using.  No system crashes, protected memory, no need to assign memory to applications, better pre-emptive multitasking, to name just a few of the benefits of moving on.\n\nBest of luck to you.\n\n--Rick
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well my first thought is....it over-heated and died.\n\nHD's produce heat, quite a bit of it actually, so it being in an external HD case, when it's meant to NOT be covered, probably caused the temp to rise and your HD to burn out, or it could just be normal  mal-function, and the drive could just be done.\n\nalso sometimes it's connectors etc....there are many things to troubleshoot when it comes to a HD not functioning properly
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There's several things I can suggest. First, you're USB ports not working may be because they are disabled in your motherboard's setup. (Reached usually be pressing the Del key while your pc is booting up.) If not, have you tried uninstalling all USB drivers before installing the new ones? I have an e-machines too, and it just may be that the download doesn't contain all the files you need.
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Hi there...try starting up the Macbook with the DVD disc that came with the computer.  Hold down the "C" key at startup.  Open Disk Utilities and run a verify and repair disk permissions and see if this corrects your problem and then restart the machine.  If all else fails just reinstall OS X from the disc and then do the updates.
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I have this problem too for my usb flash drive. Those programs that claim to get rid of them don't work, so don't waste your time. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I thought I might save you hunting for special programs. I'm sure that there is some setting in the registry (Start>Run>regedit) that controls this. If you could find it and delete it, it would probably fix it.
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Hi there...consider visiting and joining the free Apple Discussion forum for Mac  G5: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=107\n\nHere are the results I found for speaker problems with the G5: \nhttp://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=speaker+problem&objID=c107&dateRange=last90days&userID=&numResults=30&rankBy=10001\n\nI couldn't locate anything in particular however you may be able to or at least post your question here and have someone explain a solution if there is one.
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What says disk mode? When are you doing when you get this message? What is not working? If you get a message asking if its ok to disconnect, say ok.\n\nYour question is too vague. Please be more specific.