Well thought. If Energy Saver is doing the dirty in this case, the most certain salvation is going to be to get hold of the PB's HDD in SCSI Disk Mode (or Target Disk Mode in this case) from a desktop Mac, and to trash Energy Saver's preferences from the PB drive's System Folder. That done, it may be possible to keep the PB awake long enough for it to be able to do other tasks.

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