Ibook hard drive needed, old one is going out....
yes, making a horrid lawn-mower or hellicopter sound at times,
then crashing. so i need to replace the hard drive,
but where do i get it and what kind?
See your thread "g4 ibook hard drive needed, internal".
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Have you followed these instructions, specifically formatting your new HDD?
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G4 ibook hard drive needed, internal
yes, making a horrid lawn-mower or hellicopter sound at times,
then crashing. so i need to replace the hard drive,
but where do i get it and what kind?2.5" IDE/ATA laptop hard drive. You can buy it at any computer supply and electronics store which sells those drives.
You can't use a SATA (serial ATA) drive.
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IBook hard drive / cd\dvd drive errors
So my friend's old iBook finally went down, he nearly lost all of his data on it due to hard drive failure.
So I went about and replaced the hard drive with another one from my spare laptop. I got it booting up and installed Tiger, but I realized a strange error, the iBook kept going to sleep when the screen was slightly moved. So I went about and fixed that.
Somewhere along the lines however, the hard drive and dvd drives stopped registering in the boot process. At first I thought I had fried the motherboard or something, but I popped the hard drive into a firewire external reader and booted the iBook from it just fine.
When I power it on, I can hear it read the OS X install disk and spin the hard drive a little bit, but after that it will stop reading them completely and boot from the external drive. I have the cable settings correct, and aside from that I tested all of the possible configurations I could do.
At this point, I figured the cable that the HD/DVD drives are connected to was severed partly, and I ordered another one off ebay. I went to test it and the iBook is still doing the same thing.
It is a 600 mhz laptop with 256 mb ram. Any help is greatly appreciated.Somewhere along the lines however, the hard drive and dvd drives stopped registering in the boot process. At first I thought I had fried the motherboard or something, but I popped the hard drive into a firewire external reader and booted the iBook from it just fine.
I can't be certain, but it's entirely possible that the motherboard is damaged. Booting from a Firewire case wouldn't require the ATA interface to be functioning, so if that chip was damaged, perhaps due to static shock, that would explain both the hard drive and optical drive failing.
Presuming you have indeed confirmed the correct master/slave settings on the drive, try resetting the iBook's PMU:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431
If that doesn't help, you may indeed have a component failure on the main logic board.
Good luck.
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Cloning iBook Hard Drive onto iMac - How?
Hello Again Mac Experts:
You guys have never failed me yet so here's another:
Situation: I want to upgrade my internal hard drive on my iBook and so want to clone the original Hard Drive, OS and files onto my iMac before doing so. I was told "Carbon Copy Cloner" was an easy, solid program to do this operation with and so I downloaded it onto my iMac.
Issue: I have my iBook connected to my iMac via Ethernet cable and can bring up it's hard drive easily via Shareware. No problem there. The problem occurs when I start the Carbon Copy Cloner software. It immediately pops up with a window that reads - "CCC cannot find any local disks located on your system besides the start up disk. Please mount another local disk and try running CCC again" - and I can get no further. I've tried fooling around with different "mounting," rebooting, and such but nothing changes.
Problem: What am I failing to understand or negotiate properly here? Do I need to do this operation via a Fire Wire cable? Am I not mounting something correctly? What gives?!
Lost at sea again. S.O.S. Thanks!
chaemo
P.S. Truthfully, I would prefer to install the OS for my iMac onto the iBook new hard drive (when I get it installed) and so did a pre-run trial but it said it couldn't install because of "bundling" incapatibility or something. Any thoughts on getting around that one!??
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iBook OS X 10.3.9Shoot, on the previous, I forgot to click the "Yes, my questions has been answered" button.
Anyway, Dale thanks for your comments and suggestions on this matter for me. Your advice worked! FYI - here's what I previously posted:
chaemo
Great, I think I'm good now!
Thanks for your help with this, sorry it took so long to respond, I had to purchase a Fire Wire and try a few things before I could figure it out.
As you suspected, I did indeed need to get a Fire Wire to do the cloning (Ethernet is not the proper cable to do it with it turns out). So while I'm at my local Mac store I asked the tech guy about it and he told me the cloning was easy to do simply by using the Mac Disk Utility app and that I didn't need to bother with any outside software to do it. So I tried that but couldn't ever get it to work because it kept indicating that the disk was "too large," and again, I could get no further. So I went back to CCC, got further along this time, but again, ran into the size problem (I'm thinking here, that if my technical computing skills were a bit further refined, either one of these apps should probably work) . Finally, I tried the Superduper software, as you and Dale suggested, and that did the trick!
I now have a cloned copy of my iBook Hard Drive on my iMac. Next step is to get a new hard drive installed on my iBook and then put the clone back into it. Any suggestions on how that is accomplished? Is it just a matter of copying it onto the new hard drive or is there certian procedures with certian protocols involved?? Still riding the clueless train as you can tell!
Thanks again very much for your help with all this, once again you all come through for me! Sincerely,
chaemo -
After replacing a failed hard drive with new one I inadvertently created a different account name(home/user) than the one in the Time Machine backup. Now I cannot restore the photos in iPhoto. What are my options?
The best thing to do would be to start over. Use Setup Assistant this time.
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Don't transfer the Guest account, if it was enabled on the old system.
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I made a bootable disc on an external hard drive, with Yosemite on it. I am running Snow Leopard on my iMac. How can I open the Yosemite disc from the desktop on my iMac? Does the external hard drive need to be connected to my iMac by firewire to do that?
kahjot wrote:
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Hi Janice,
What version of Mac OS are you using?
Adobe does not recommend migrating the software from one disk to the other.
Please run the setup file for Acrobat and reinstall the software. You might want to delete the existing version of Acrobat installed before reinstalling it.
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