Installing SATA (parallel?) hard drive in mac pro

is there a way to install my old ATA (is this called parallel) hard drive into my mac pro? i know i can't put it in one of the SATA slots, but how about the second drive bay or something?

While the screws fit into hard drive screw threads they're largely useless as the mounting holes for a 5.25" optical drive do not match that of a 3.5" hard drive. If you want to do any screwing in on the drive you will at a minimum require a 3.5" to 5.25" conversion bracket. Even then the mounting can be tricky do to the short cable and likely misalignment and the connector to that of the optical drive above it.
While the installation of a drive is not difficult the mounting of it, especially if you want it nicely done, can very well be.

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After formatting the new hdd, while still outside the mac, make a clone of your internal disk with CarbonCopyCloner on the new (still external) disk: CCC will ask you to install the Recovery Partition also, do that, and then the clone.
Then you eject the new drive, shutdown, and then you open the mac take the original disk out, and put the new one in.
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how to install hard drive into mac pro

I recently bought a new 2TB internal sata drive for my Macpro.
The installation was easy, but I'm not sure what to do next.
For one, should I partition the drive?
My purpose for buying the drive was to use it as my go to drive for Parallels. I used to run my music studio on Windows based machines, and my older project files require a windows OS to recover. I installed Parallels so I can have my studio running Mac and Windows programs which will enable me to access my old project files and take them into my newer Protools system.
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Hi, i've an iMac G5 20" iSight with an intel core duo 2ghz. I would like to know if i can install a sata III hard drive like 128GB Crucial m4 2.5" SSD.
Thx a lot.

First, you do not have an iMac G5. G5s are PPC machines, but yours is an Intel model.
You can install a SATA III drive but I would not spend the money since your model only supports SATA I or SATA II depending on which model you have. I would also be careful about using Crucial SSDs because they may not all work in a Mac. I would get your SSD at OWC instead. You will find their equivalent product for SATA I or SATA II here. I have two of these drives, and they are excellent.

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Pretty simple on the Mac Pro. Just pull the tray with the primary drive out (there are no cables to worry about) and then also pull out one of the secondary trays. Put a new drive in one of the secondary trays, then slide it into the primary slot, and put the former primary drive into the vacant secondary slot.
Then you just install a fresh copy of OS X from the install DVD. Just put it in the drive and hold down "C" at boot. Then follow the instructions on screen, and Migration Assistant will pick up the second drive and do it's thing.
Finally, Mac is not an acronym so doesn't need to be in all caps. It's short for Macintosh... Like the apple you can buy in a grocery store.

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Hello,
I know how to do the whole disk utility thing to reformat it but can I just plug the hard drive right into the bay in the computer and run disk utility?
Thanks!

Well, I would recommend shutting down the Mac Pro first…
Then install your new Hard-Drive / Start Up and reformat the drive.

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I use a mid - 2012 Mac Pro; run Mavericks OS X 10.9.2.
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2. Once formatted to 10.9.2, can I reformat the IDE hard drive to Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8, from my Mac Pro using Mavericks?
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I'm looking to install an extra internal hard drive in my 2009 Mac Pro, but I need to know if there are any compatibility issues with newer hard drives. I am looking at the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0036Q7MV0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p147_d0_g147_i1?pf_ rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1HY9SF4S3JFEA79TK610&pf_rd_t=101&pf _rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294
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Hi danton,
that's odd since Vista is supporting the GPT partition type.
If I remeber correctly from another post from you, you have a full Retail version of Vista which includes the 32-bit and the 64-bit version, right ?
Are you trying to install the 64-bit version when this error occurs ?
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if you answer this you would be a personal hero of mine
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I have a MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.53 15" (Unibody - Late 2008) that has been upgraded from the standard 320 GB SATA hard drive, to a Seagate 750 GB SATA 16 MB cache 7200 rpm hard drive.
I have recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.66 15" (SD - Mid 2009) that has the standard 320 GB SATA hard drive.
Both are running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
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Can I simply swap the hard drive out of my older (2.53GHz) Mac Pro and install it into the newer (2.66GHz) Mac Pro, without having to reinstall the Mac OS X software?
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Why go for all in one on one drive?
I'd have opted for 640GB boot drive, then use the 750GB for something like media files of all kinds.
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