Adding another internal HardDrive

How would I go about installing another internal harddrive into my new imac? I recently perchased my imac because my old windows XP computer became "unusable". I want to use this hard drive on this imac, so how would I go about installing it inside?
- or is it impossible? -

It would be very helpful if you told us what iMac you have. If you want to add a second drive in addition to the one already inside the answer is no you cannot do that. If you want to re-use the XP hard drive your best bet would be to get an enclosure and connect it via USB or FW800, however remember you will probably have to reformat it to make it useable.
Regards,
Roger

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And it is almost runout space. I have plan to adding another 2 harddrive with same type.
Is is possible to add another harddrive on raid 1 without change or re-install the operating system installed ??
My operating system is Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) and oracle database inside.
Please I need your suggest and advise, what should I do to add more space on existing raid 1.
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Adding another internal hd

Model Name: Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Processor Speed: 1.8 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 900 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.2f2
Serial Number: XB3460L9QES
SONY DVD RW DW-U10A:
Model: SONY DVD RW DW-U10A
Revision: A43h
Serial Number: EA5CD60E
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: No
The above is the basic config of my machine. I currently only have one HD, 160GB (I believe) I want to add another internal drive. Can I add a 500GB or 750 GB with this machine? If so, any recommendations?
Also, I have already expanded the memory from 250 to 2 GB (can I take this to 4GB?) with 4 500mb .
I am a photographer and with Leopard, my disk space is just about used up.....
Any recommendaitons, please?

Hey there
I am a photographer too. I have a G5 tower and put another disk in recently. Yep you can throw just about any SATA drive in there. Just make sure it's 7200 rpm and SATA. Look on Pricespy.co.nz for good deals for hard disks. Your computer should have come with a manual to show how to put it in, it's dead easy but you can pay someone to put it in for you.
I am about to change my main drive from a 160 to 500gb and my second drive too. Then use the old ones as external backups and scratch disks for photoshop. I hope that it will speed up my photoshop.
Hope this helps.
Message was edited by: Chris Hillock

Disc utility can not verify my internal harddrive

My disc utility cannot verify the internal harddrive and says that it needs to be repaired, however the repair button is greyed out. I have been told that I need the install a disc to repair the harddrive, my computer is running 10.4 Tiger, can I buy a 10.5 Leopard disc to install and repair the harddrive? or does it have to be the original 10.4 disc which unfortunately I no longer have? if so do you know where I can buy a 10.4 disc?
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Hi Rainbow King, and a warm welcome to the forums!
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http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
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C. Tough without the Tiger Disk problems, but try fsck...
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1. Start up your computer in single-user mode to reach the command line. Hold CMD+s keys down at bootup. Note: If necessary, perform a forced restart as described in the Emergency Troubleshooting Handbook that came with your computer. On desktop computers, you can do this by pressing the reset/interrupt button (if there is one) or holding down the power button for several seconds. On portable computers, simultaneously press the Command-Control-power keys. If your portable computer doesn't restart with this method, you may need to reset the Power Manager.
2. At the command-line prompt, type /sbin/fsck -fy
(SPACE between fsck AND -fy important)
3. Press Return. fsck will go through five "phases" and then return information about your disk's use and fragmentation. Once it finishes, it'll display this message if no issue is found: 
The volume (nameofvolume) appears to be OK  If fsck found issues and has altered, repaired, or fixed anything, it will display this message: *** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***   Important: If this message appears, repeat the fsck command you typed in step 2 until fsck tells you that your volume appears to be OK (first-pass repairs may uncover additional issues, so this is a normal thing to do).
4. When fsck reports that your volume is OK, type reboot at the prompt and then press Return.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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ITunes adding another copy "Someone Like You" by Adele over and over and over.... literally every 10 seconds

I recently bought a used Mac Mini which has a fresh copy of Mountain Lion 10.7.5 installed on it which includes iTunes 10.7
Since my time machine backup of my now dead iMac (very 1st Intel iMac) has far more data on it (the iMac has a 250 GB internal HD and my "new" Mac Mini only has a 160 GB. internal HD) So I did a minimum transfer of my user data using Migration Assistant from a Time Machine backup of my old iMac.
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Everything seemed fine until started seeing iTunes adding another copy "Someone Like You" by Adele over and over and over.... literally every 10 seconds, as long as iTunes is open and running, this song just keeps adding another copy. The program has been open again for a few minutes and there are now over 100 copies of this song in the iTunes window! I've never seen anything like this.
I've selected the songs deleted them from itunes "MUSIC" window in the program and it just keeps replicating the song.
I turned off in "ADVANCED PREFERENCES, "Keep iTunes Media folder organized and also unchecked Copy files to iTunes Media folder when additng to library" to see if that would make this behavior stop.
I've removed the "Adele" file folder from the iTunes Media/Music folder and trashed it...
Still keeps adding the song....
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Thanks!

octothorpe wrote:
After going through the forums, I did find some more information.
i noticed
So in other words, yes, it is a known problem, and yes, it's a bug with the (11) version that was fixed, for most people, with the (12) version.
have it your own way, buddy ...
By the way, I have no idea why you would coyly allude to this issue, parsing out little bits of half-information. You've clearly participated in the other discussions about this issue and could just come out and say what I said above.
i'm an end-user like you, no Apple engineer or tech. i *don't know* if a specific release contained a bug or not. i'm trying to choose my words carefully to stay in line with the ToU.
if you didn't find my replies helpful, say so. i certainly meant no harm and was giving it my best shot.
happy computing !
JGG

G5 randomly ejecting second internal harddrive 5 mins after startup?

I recently upgraded my G5 from tiger to leapoard to make it compatible with my iphone4. For some reason it has now started ejecting my second internal harddrive containing movies and pictures 5 minuts or so aftr start up. Before that time the drive works perfectly.
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Do a little at a time and keep your fingers crossed. You may have to remount and retry several times. Of course, with it not staying mounted very long, larger files may be problematic. I would hook up an external drive, copy from the failing drive to the other internal for maximum speed, then copy from the other internal to the external until I got everything off. Best to get a FireWire external (most useful, but USB is OK) SATA enclosure or drive dock, put a bare drive into it so that when you are done, you can drop the bare drive into the machine in place of the failing drive.
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ITunes keeps storing files on C drive, even when the library/storage is on another internal drive. It should stop that.

Whatever I do to get iTunes to store it's data and settings on another internal drive, it KEEPS some sort of data/settings stored on the C drive.
A mkdir has been set up already to catch nasty "keep doing that" behaviour. Nevertheless, iTunes dumps stuff on the C drive /documents/mymusic.
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managing a database or DRM isn't THAT difficult.
Whatever files are within the directory is absolutely fine, as long as the user is allowed to choose that directory.

Did you mean mkdir or mklnk?
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tt2

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1918
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How can I "archive" mails in Mail App to another internal drive/partition to save space but still have it searchable in spotlight (and preferably visible, searchable, draggable in Mail App)?

How can I "archive" mails in Mail App to another internal drive/partition to save space but still have it searchable in spotlight (and preferably visible, searchable, draggable in Mail App)?
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This seemed to work:
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System drive full want to move files to another internal drive

my sysytem drive is almost full it is only 52gb I have another internal drive that to 100gb and I want to move everything to that drive. I kow that I can do this by making a disk image of the system disk. however I need a bootable cd, which I donot have. can i use another mechine to boot with and make the disk image that way? if so how?
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MDD G4s have room for four drives on two IDE buses (plus two optical bays). No reason to go through the disk image intermediate step that I can see though. Just use Disk Utility -> Restore to move or clone everything over. Or you can do same with CCC, or SuperDuper. Lots of ways.
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Hi There,
I am trying to format a 3 TB internal harddrive, so that I can reinstal Final Cut Pro 4 on to this new drive, in order to continue editting video. My last hard drive crashed and I was unable to pull anything off of it, so I am starting from scratch. I did have two hard drives, one died and the other one is where all my applications were stored. The 2nd drive is still good, but I running out of space for my video files, hence the reason for this newest drive.
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So I was able to format the 3TB hard drive, but it only formated it as 736GB
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minimum system requirements
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Classic/OS9 Apps no longer supported.
Trouble is Apple no longer sells it, check eBay & such for the Retail version, not the Gray Discs...
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mac+os+x+leopard+retail+10.5
You have to call Apple & likely ask for a Product Specialist to get it, if they still have it! Helps to tell them you have an iPad/iPhone & you can't run 10.6.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardassist/
http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/unsupported.html
List of Applications Not Compatible with Leopard...
http://guides.macrumors.com/List:Applications_Not_Compatible_with_Leopard

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Hi Everyone!
I have two questions that I would really love someone to
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Hello Experts,
Can we append the header of an internal table to another internal table? Do we have have to use work area for this?
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Wrong - it will append only the header. If you want to append the whole table, you would:
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Edited by: Rob Burbank on Mar 3, 2008 4:06 PM

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Hi I want to know if posible to create an internal table structure with the rows of another internal table?
ex.
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Hi,
If you do this way then what will be the difference between the two table anyway?? First internal table has the same structure irrespective of which row you select. and you are going to store the data from each row to the rows of the second internal table. In that case, the structure of the internal table is the same as first table. and it would have same rows.
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