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Power Suppy for Powermac 4400/200
I have a friend's dead Powermac 4400 and she needs the data off the
drive. I'm 98% sure that if the power supply is replaced I can retrieve the data. I guess this machine is around 1998-1999. There are very few of these P/S available and they are $80+. What are my lowest-cost options in getting the data off this drive? I can't find another working Powermac to borrow, at least not yet. But I do have several PCs and one with a SCSI drive interface. I'm not even sure what kind of drive is in this Powermac 4400/200. If I can get this Powermac working for a reasonable cost it will be donated to a school with underprivileged children after the data is retrieved. Any ideas? |
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Power Suppy for Powermac 4400/200
"Phisherman" wrote in message ... I have a friend's dead Powermac 4400 and she needs the data off the drive. I'm 98% sure that if the power supply is replaced I can retrieve the data. I guess this machine is around 1998-1999. There are very few of these P/S available and they are $80+. What are my lowest-cost options in getting the data off this drive? I can't find another working Powermac to borrow, at least not yet. But I do have several PCs and one with a SCSI drive interface. I'm not even sure what kind of drive is in this Powermac 4400/200. If I can get this Powermac working for a reasonable cost it will be donated to a school with underprivileged children after the data is retrieved. Any ideas? Get the exact make/model off the power supply and post it here. I'm sure you can find a exact replacement for $80+. But if we can find the specifications, we can probably get you something that will work for about $20. It won't be an exact replacement, but who cares? -Dave |
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Power Suppy for Powermac 4400/200
Dave wrote:
"Phisherman" wrote in message ... I have a friend's dead Powermac 4400 and she needs the data off the drive. I'm 98% sure that if the power supply is replaced I can retrieve the data. I guess this machine is around 1998-1999. There are very few of these P/S available and they are $80+. What are my lowest-cost options in getting the data off this drive? I can't find another working Powermac to borrow, at least not yet. But I do have several PCs and one with a SCSI drive interface. I'm not even sure what kind of drive is in this Powermac 4400/200. If I can get this Powermac working for a reasonable cost it will be donated to a school with underprivileged children after the data is retrieved. Any ideas? Get the exact make/model off the power supply and post it here. I'm sure you can find a exact replacement for $80+. But if we can find the specifications, we can probably get you something that will work for about $20. It won't be an exact replacement, but who cares? -Dave http://farrer.net/~rbf/files/docs/Apple/PowerMac's%20%3F/powermac_4400.pdf Power supply 661-1248 It looks like there are perhaps four 6 pin connectors, that fasten to the motherboard. Instead of one big connector. Not exactly ATX, that's for sure. Using the part number, the first one returned in a search, is $69. It must be worth $69 to get the files back... http://www.dvwarehouse.com/Power-Sup...00-p-2038.html Macs at one time used SCSI disks, then switched over to IDE drives. The above service manual says the 4400 uses an IDE drive. There is a comment here, about opening a mac IDE drive under Windows. http://www.applefritter.com/node/1864 A "Macopener" program manual. http://download.dataviz.com/pdf/manuals/mo_manual.pdf Macopener is $50 here, program available via download: http://www.dataviz.com/purchase/shop...?store_id=1004 Since MacOSX likely would not load on that computer, you'll be looking at an older format on the disk (HFS ?). Good luck, Paul |
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