

For other methods, see The 12 Best Ways to Remove Stripped Screws. Instead of a rubber band, you could also try with a piece of cloth (anything that can provide more grip and change its shape a bit). Try placing a wide rubber band on the screw and use a slightly bigger screwdriver. There's a number of possibilities here, including buying an ethernet crossover cable and networking, but if it is just a once off thing I wouldn't bother buying a cable. The worst case scenario may require drilling the screw out. It would be a hassle, but you could copy the files to the G3 IDE drive, then move that drive into your G4 and copy the files off that. I risked a forced restart of the computer and it appears to be working fine now (currently in the process of backing it up).
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Also, if the Mac does not start after three beeps, it is not a software failure, and the probability of hardware failure is overwhelmingly higher. From what I could gather it sounds like the ram probably became dislodged. This is not limited to the MacBook Air, but it is common to all Macs (beeping), and even if the memory fails even if one of the two or four devices is installed, the beep will sound. If you installed either then a second transfer should be no problem. My macbook pro fell on the floor, it immedietly shut down and began to make 3 audible alarm like beeping sounds over and over again. From then on it started happening more often with no specific. The screen was cut in half and a bit fuzzy. All of a sudden the screen went black for a few seconds and came back with a kind of distorted image. Hi, My Macbook Pro from late 2011 started showing some weird behaviour a few days ago. If the G3 is in its base configuration it probably won't have either a CD burner or a USB port. Macbook Pro screen fuzzy with lines and freezes. The only thing is, you need something to which you can then copy the files in the G3. You could put the SCSI drive in the G3, boot up the G3 and then copy the files off. Your G3 probably has an IDE drive as its boot drive so you wouldn't even need to worry about jumpers since it would be on a different controller.

The G3 could take the drive - I have a G3 with both IDE and old SCSI drives. A G4 probably won't have one unless there is a special card (and even so, I think there are different versions SCSI and newer ones won't work).
