Imac Intel hard disc and disc drive change (in french)

Hello, a fellow from the macbidouille community (french mac board) has put online a very comprehensive guide on how to proceed for changing disc drive and hard drive in an Imac G5 Isight 20" 2,1ghz (also good for the IMac G5 17" 1,9GHz iSight (MA063LL/A), IMac Intel Core Duo white 17" (MA406LL/A and MA199LL) and 20" (MA200LL), but also iMac Intel Core 2 Duo white 17" (MA710LL et MA590LL), 20" (MA589LL) and 24" (MA456LL;
Also another one for the iMac G4 17" 1,25GHz USB2.0 (valid also for the iMac 20" 1,25GHz USB2.0 (M9290LL/A)).
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You are saying that your hard drive in Disk Utility shows 150 GB, and when you click Info that also shows 150GB? This would be the hardware drive details, indicated by the name of a drive manufacturer like Hitachi or Seagate? Plus when you select that and click Info, the pop up shows the same capacity (followed by the actual number of bytes)?
Offset under the hardware drive in the initial Disk Utility list will be any partitions that you have mounted. If selected, they will show the name under which they are mounted on the Mac. That should give a complete list (bottom of page) of the mount point, drive size, number of bytes used, and number of bytes free. What do they say?

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Can an old imac hard disc drive be installed into an external hard disc case and be connected via USB to a new imac computer.
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Yes, it certainly can, but you realize that you can't boot a PPC iMac from a USB drive, only a firewire one. If your new computer is an intel, it will boot without a problem.

I have just installed a new hard drive in my imac intel 20" (2006) and now the hard drive does not show up in the 'select destinations' folder of the install program.

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Thats correct. I can see it in the list however when I attempt to erase it or partition it it's like it's not being found or recognised and it throws up the input/output error message. I am pretty sure that the sensor it attached correctly and it is a SATA drive. I can see all the infor regarding the drive when disk utility is open and it all looks good but I cant access it or do anything with it. It's taunting me!
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My laptop was getting slower and slower so I did a default restore via the recovery partition and when it rebooted to start the reformat and reinstall to factory condition I got a message on the screen telling me to run the hard disc drive test. Did this and got the 303 and 305 error messages. The restore to default setting worked however after doing research in the error codes I realise I'm up for a new hard disc drive.
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Hi,
Your notebook is listed as coming with a 320Gb Hard Drive, but you can just as easily install a 500Gb or 750Gb HDD if you want more space - the drives on the following links are examples that would be fine for your notebook - you're in no way restricted to a particular manufacturer.
500Gb Hard Drive
750Gb Hard Drive.
The procedure to replace the Hard Drive starts on Page 65 of your Maintenance & Service Guide.
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I want to connect a hard disc drive to my home hub 3 so I can access this from around the house, I have formatted the drive to fat 32 but i can not get it to show up in my network and when i look on bthomehub.home it say no usb device connected.
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I want to connect a hard disc drive to my home hub 3 so I can access this from around the house, I have formatted the drive to fat 32 but i can not get it to show up in my network and when i look on bthomehub.home it say no usb device connected.
Any ideas or solutions would be great as its driving me mad now
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You want to disconnect everything possible, to limit what your iMac needs to do when it finally boots up.
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