IBook hard drive

My iBook G3 was involved in a house fire and got wet. I dried it (externally) and it ran for a week or two and then died. I opened it up and there was corrision and such. I purchased a MacBook. I have heard that an enclosure can be purchased to house the hard drive so I can transfer the data to the MacBook. Info please...

Sorry to hear about the fire. I hope everyone is safe and well.
As far as the enclosure goes, all you need is a 2.5" IDE/AYA enclosure like THIS from OWC.
As a side note, it is not recommended that you transfer programs from a PPC Mac like the iBook to Intel-based Macs like the MacBook. You can safely move over data, but users have reported problems moving programs.
To avoid issues, simply install those programs from CD instead.
Peace.

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I have replaced my ibook hard drive but when I start up I get a folder with a flashing question mark. I have tried installing the OSX disk using the "C" key but can't get any further than the flashing "?." What do I do? What is the problem?

I have replaced my ibook hard drive but when I start up I get a folder with a flashing question mark. I have tried installing the OSX disk using the "C" key but can't get any further than the flashing "?." What do I do? What is the problem?

Which iBook do you have?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1772?viewlocale=en_US
Which version of the OS is installed, and which version are you trying to install?
You could try starting up with Startup Manager and see if it will allow you to select the OS X install disc as the startup disk. If so, maybe you can proceed from there. I would recommend repairing the hard drive first since you are evidently having a bit of a problem with it.

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 10.3.9

Shoot, 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

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".

IBook hard drive errors

My brother's iBook G4 12" started freezing randomly, and when I tried to run disk utility it would give me lots and lots of errors. Apple Hardware Test spit some errors which I don't remember (unfortunately), and then the hard drive stopped showing up at all.
I bought a new 80G disk, and after swapping them, got about 90% into the Tiger install when it locked up completely. After forcing a reboot, the hard drive isn't recognized once again. Apple Hardware Test is giving "2STF/4/3: ATA- 100 ATA- 6 - Master".
Does this point more towards the ATA controller dying or did I somehow just get a lemon drive?
I have an external enclosure but it's either broken or a piece of junk, because -every- drive I've ever used in it has acted funny. It'll lock up the computer trying to read files and whatnot. I wouldn't trust it to give me an accurate result.
If anyone has any tips I'd appreciate it, as my brother needs his computer pretty bad and I don't really know where to go from here.
thanks,
Isaac

That's what I'm leaning towards. I'm going to have both drives tested by a friend and I'm also going to drop the $19.95 to replace the drive cable. If it still tests bad then I guess I have to replace the logic board.
Is it possible to replace the logic board with one with a 1.33GHz processor (it's an 800MHz iBook)?
Thanks,
Isaac

12" 1.33Ghz iBook Hard Drive speed?

hey all,
i'm curious to know if any of you have ended up w/ 5400rpm drives in your 12" 1.33Ghz iBooks. i know of a couple ppl on a diff forum who got stock iBooks and for whatever reason they got 5400rpm 40GB drives. offhand i know there's very little price difference between the 4200 and 5400 drives, so maybe apple is just streamlining their supply line? i'm just wondering if this drive speed is common for the latest revision of the 12" iBooks even tho it isn't something they advertise on the iBook page.
thanks

The hard drive is not a user-installable part. You would void your warranty or AppleCare Protection Plan to open the iBook and install a drive yourself. Since you can't buy a bare hard drive from Apple, they won't install one you've purchased somewhere else. An Apple Authorized Service Provider could install a new hard drive for you, though, without voiding your warranty.
Apple buys hard drives on the open market. If the 4,200RPM drives become constrained, they may find some 5,400RPM drives for a good price and install those for a while. Since the hard drive speed is not specified at the online Apple store, the included component can vary.
I would ask you why, exactly, you would consider the increased cost to upgrade a hard drive like this? I can edit DV and author DVDs with the 80GB 4,200RPM drive in my 1GHz G4 PowerBook. I've NEVER had an issue with my hard drive doing these kinds of operations. You should have a very good user experience with your 4,200RPM hard drive.
-Doug

Downloading date from G4 iBook hard drive

My G4 iBook power supply failed. I removed the hard drive and I would like to download the data to another drive I can use. Does anyone know where I can have this done or is there an adapter I can use?

You could use a USB-to-ATA/IDE adapter. One example can be seen below, but you can also find similar products in a computer store.
http://www.newertech.com/products/usb3_universaldriveadap.php
Connect the adapter to the hard drive and to another Mac. You could then copy files. If the files are very important, and if you feel insecure about the procedure, you may want to ask a specialist for advice and help.
BTW, you mentioned that the power supply failed. Was that the external AC adapter, or did something happen inside the computer? Generally speaking, problems in the DC-in circuits are not unusual. Sometimes it is as simple as a few bad solder joints at the DC-in-jack. If so, someone with basic soldering skills may be able to carry out a repair.
Jan

IBook hard drive disappears!

I installed Leopard on my ibook last week and it has been running pretty much problem free for the past week. This morning I woke the computer from sleep and it was running very slow, and then it froze. I went to restart, but I was greeted with the flashing question mark. I then grabbed my 10.5 install disk to see if I was going to need to reinstall the OS. Long story short, the hard drive is gone! The installer does not even recognize that I have one!
I would assume that the hard drive has failed and it is just time for a new one, but I am looking for some confirmation (I would think that the OS would still "see" the hard drive even if it had failed). I had the hard drive replaced last May by a Mac repair company (found them on the web) and the hard drive has a 3 year warranty.....But I also had the logic board replaced about a month later by Apple (at this point I am wishing I just got a new Macbook). I am not sure if there is way to narrow down what the is the issue (logic board or hard drive).
I basically need to try and figure out who to send this to for warranty work (Apple or MacService), or if the problem might just be with OS 10.5.
I have an appointment with a Genius bar, but I need to drive about 2 hours to get to one since the closest one had no appointments available.
Any help is appreciated!

Here is an article that may help:
A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58042
There are several steps to follow. Hopefully you will be able to reconnect with your start up disk. At this point, I would guess that it has to do with Leopard, and does not represent a hardware problem.
If there is absolutely no sign of the hard drive, and even Disk Utility can't find it, there is a chance that the hard drive has become unplugged from the logic board. The cable plugs in and is covered with yellow tape. The edges of this tape can stick to the aluminum shield and it's conceivable that the connector might work loose from the socket. Especially if it wasn't fully seated when the logic board was replaced.
Try the steps in the article, and if nothing works, please post back.
Good luck!

Panther is installed but won't boot from iBook hard drive

Hello,
I made a similar post in the iBooks colors section of Discussions on this topic not quite knowing whether this was a hardware or software issue. I finally got Panther to install after using Disk Doctor to check for and fix errors on 9.2.2 (I would never use with OSX) and also rebuilt the directory while booted from an OS 9 CD and running Disk Warrior from a floppy and taking out the airport card. The Panther CD told me to restart the computer after installation. During the OSX start up from the hard drive I saw a gray screen and the dark gray Apple logo with the spinning gear then the computer crashed and a message appeared that I needed to restart the computer. After restart, the same sequence of events happened again. I have tried to restart from the OSX using the full retail CD used for intallation and the computer also crashes. I cannot start up from the Disk Warrior CD either. I have also tried make a Safe Mode start up and the iBook again crashed with the restart message appearing again. When I restart in OS 9 everything works perfectly, OS, airport and applications. I did have Jaguar installed on this iBook until five months ago, but incounterred issues with it and decided that more RAM would solve my problem. I then decided to initialize the hard drive and reinstall OSX after purchasing 256 RAM. The 256 stick of RAM was bought from ifixit.com and a guy there told me he thought that the logic board needed to be replaced. I explained to him that the computer works perfectly fine in the OS 9 mode, but he said that 0SX is more demanding and 9 can get by on less than perfect logic board. I also reinstalled the 128 MB RAM that was in the computer when Jaguar was running on it, but that didn't help either. I have scoured the iBook and Panther OSX sections of Discussions for any others having a similar problem, but not such luck.
I would appreciate any information or suggestion that you might have as to what may be causing this issue on my iBook.
Thank you.
Greg
iBook Mac OS X (10.3.5) 300 mhz 320 MB RAM

Greg:
You have probably already tried this, but the first thing I would do is reset the PRAM.
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.
Also, check out this Apple article Your Mac won't start up in OS X.
Good luck.
cornelius
PismoG4 550, 100GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS X (10.4.5) Mac OS X (10.4.5) Beige G3 OS 8.6

Ibook hard drive dead

My friend has an ibook that she spilled some sqrite on several months ago (yes i know this is very bad) but it has worked fine since then and we have kept our fingers crossed. This week though the computer will not start and the genius at the apple store said the drive is dead, which is understandable. The warrenty runs out in january (she doesn't have apple care as of now) but that doesn't really matter because apple would not cover this anyway. My question is how can she fix it? She doesn't have much money so an expensive repair may be out of the question. I have thought about trying to put in a new hard drive myself seeing as how her warrenty is almost up anyway but i don't really know how hard that is, i've never reaplaced a laptop hard drive before. Ideas?

At the time of the spill all of the above cautions were taken. After a day or 2 it was turned back on and had been functioning like normal until this weekend. At this point it will start to turn on but when it hits the blue screen before the login screen it will sit there forever. I tried to run disk repair, but that gave an error. When i took it to the apple store today the guy plugged in a firewire drive and booted off of it then ran disk utility. When disk utility opened the ibook's hard drive showed up red, and the guy said that meant it was dead. He could tell something had been spilled on it and i told him it was a surgary liquid and he said that with sugar it doesn't necessarily destroy the circuit right away, but that over time the circuit could eat away at it and then could get messed up. So because the computer could boot off of the external drive at the store i infer that the motherboard etc is fine (at least for now anyway)

Data retrieval from failed ibook hard drive

my ibook G4's hard drive failed after about 18 months, which is ridiculous in itself. they tell me i have to send it off somewhere for data retrieval.
WHERE is a good place to do this? i need the data.

Hey Christopher.
Have you already removed the HD?
Do you have access to another Mac where you could try Target Disk Mode ? It may be worth a try and shouldn't cost you a thing.
If you are willing to buy some software, Alsoft's DiskWarrior has helped crack some pretty tough looking jobs.
If your drive has not completely failed either one of these may work. Target Disk Mode is worth a try as it won't cost you a thing but time.
Edit: As Ryan M said, in the future backup...backup....backup.....backup.

A Cautionary Tale + Question about ibook hard drive

I made the switch to Mac almost two years ago; I love my ibook G4, but I wish I had purchased AppleCare. Now I've got an odd HD problem and I'm wondering if anyone else has had something similar happen.
Right now the HD is OK; obviously, I'm using it to post this message. But fairly often I will get the whirly, the computer will absolutely freeze (no F9, no option-command-escape, nothing). Guess what makes it better? Tilting the entire computer up at about a 30 degree angle! Everything goes back to normal--the HD kicks back into place, the whirly goes away, and my computer is fine--until I place the computer on a level surface again.
I have a theory as to why this is happening, and I'm wondering whether it's correct. Stupidly, I have in the past carried my ibook around while it's open. Recently I heard an odd groaning sound coming from the HD while doing so. I bet that I scratched the HD somehow or loosened it in some way that it only works when it's tilted in a certain direction. Do I need to replace the HD? I'm on level ground right now, and, knock on wood, everything's OK.
Any similar experiences out there, or responses to my theory? Thank you.
iBook G4 800 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Andrew, if you're booted from a Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) install disk, you should be able to open the Disk Utility from the Installer menu without actually installing Mac OS X. What does the Disk Utility tell you about your iBook's hard drive? Is the S.M.A.R.T. status failing? Are you able to "repair disk" and/or "repair disk permissions" on the hard drive? Have you run the Apple Hardware Test CD? Although it does seem to sound like a hard drive hardware issue, before you go about replacing the hard drive, it might be a good idea to go through these troubleshooting steps to eliminate things like a bad logic board first. What if you go about the cost and time to replace the hard drive but it's actually the ATA controller on the logic board that's the problem?
-Doug

Ibook hard drive problem!!!

This is disastorous. Yesterday a toy magnet fell on the laptop above the hard drive for a few seconds. It continued working fine for a few minutes and then went very slow. My ibook does not start up properly, instead the white apple backgound comes on but no login screen. Then a black console comes up:
Darwin|BSD (ME-ibook-G4.local) (console)
login: disk Os3: I/0 error.
disk Os3: I/0 error
I turned off and tried again and this happened:
login: flushing fs disk buffer returned Ox3c
I cannot login through this method either as it just hangs.
I need files from my hard drive! I hope it isnt broken, not now when there are hand in dates for uni!

Hi H Moro!
First run Repair Disk, instructions below.
And also try some of the suggestions in these links.
Your Mac won't start up in Mac OS X (Mac OS X 10.3.9 or earlier)
Troubleshooting Startup Problems
THESE ARE THE STEPS FOR USING DISK UTILITY TO REPAIR YOUR HD
1.Insert the System Install disk, Mac OS X CD-ROM disk, or Restore DVD disk, then restart the computer while holding the C key. Use the System disk, of the OS, that is currently installed.
2.Once started up from CD or DVD, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu.
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from disc to access Disk Utility.
3.Click the First Aid tab.
4.Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5.Select your Mac OS X volume, if necessary.
6.Click Repair. If DU reports errors it has fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported.
7.When finished, select Quit Disk Utility from the Installer menu.
8.Select Quit Installer from the Installer menu.
9.In the resulting pop-up window, choose restart.
10.After the computer has restarted, you can eject the CD.
Good Luck!
ali b

IBook Hard Drive issues

Hi all, I have an ibook 1.42 ghz G4. Very recently, I discovered that I can't move any data to the internal hard drive because it says it is full. When I click on the hard drive info, it says that it's capacity is "--KB", and it's available is "--KB". I know that it is not full, and that there is something weird going on. Can anybody help? And yes, all the data is backed up somewhere already....whew!

Hi kenjamin,
Here's a great little utility that can tell you where your largest files are that are taking up space:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21149
Also, it can't hurt to run Disk Utility from your system restore disk and Verify there aren't any errors on the disk. Disk Utility is here: Applications/Utilities
Carolyn

IBook Hard drive question

Hi all,
i removed the hard drive from a mac book pro 2.33ghz 15inch late 2006 120gb drive .. is it possible to fit it into my ibookg4 1.33ghz powerpc which has a 60gb drive
thanks
Rohan

RohanJM wrote:
Hi all,
i removed the hard drive from a mac book pro 2.33ghz 15inch late 2006 120gb drive .. is it possible to fit it into my ibookg4 1.33ghz powerpc which has a 60gb drive
You probably need an explanation. The MacBook Pro would use an SATA interface. The iBook line used the IDE (now known as parallel ATA) interface. They are not interchangeable.

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