Brad H McCollum <bmccoll1@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
It probably won't boot off a firewire drive.
Go to ebay.
Purchase a pre-owned 5 or 10G drive, of the right dimensions.
Install, and see if it works.
If it does, then you probably want to buy a bigger drive new for the
laptop.
I think it's likely to be the hard drive.

First, back up the original to a desktop.

If it's not backed up, then it's not important.

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