Rich, Mac OS 9.1. Yes, I imaging that moving the drive to an older (SCSI) Mac might be a good solution. I could bring my PowerBook and just copy the files I need over a network. Does that sound viable? Thanks, David ++++++++++ David Spound david at spound.com 413-219-0654 (work/cell) Computer and electronics equipment for sale: http://www.spound.com/sale.html on 1/5/05 12:05 PM, Rich Roth at rich at on-the-net.com wrote: > Hello David, > > A key part of the information needed is what OS and version you are running > ? I'd expect OS/9 and what version ?? > > We have some older Mac's which we might be able to plug the drive into but > I'd expect others can be of more help to you. > > Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 4:37:50 PM, you wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> One of my older Macs has stopped functioning and I would like to recover some >> files. >> >> It¹s a PowerMac 7500 that has a G3 upgrade card installed. In fact, the Mac >> is >> OK; it¹s the PowerLogix G3 upgrade card that broke. The heat sink came off of >> the CPU and the computer won¹t boot up. Unfortunately, the upgrade card is so >> firmly seated into the mother board that I cannot remove it (so as to >> re-install the original ³G1² processor). > >