Old iBook Combo drive into BlackBook 2.0

I've got a dead 12" iBook 1.2GHz (with a combo drive) and a BlackBook Core Duo 2.0GHz (with a drive that doesn't want to accept disks...)
I'm sure the BlackBook drive is bad (ie.- dirty/non repairable) and am wondering if it would be easier to just swap out the two.
Does anyone know if this is possible?
Will the iBook drive work in my BlackBook?
Thanks in advance,
Double_A

No, the iBook drive is 12.7mm high and the MacBook takes a 9.5mm high drive. Check out the specs at OWC. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/

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Is it possible to make a CW-8123-C combo drive into an external device? If so where can I get the case that would be compatible with that?

I'd do a google search for "slimline optical drive enclosure." I actually just did one and a fair number came up for USB, but I didn't see any for firewire. They're out there, but you'll probably have to hunt for them.
If worse comes to worse and you need to do something like reload the OS, and you have access to another Firewire Mac (remember, firewire 400 ports aren't available on all Macs any longer) you could always do the following:
1. On the borrowed Mac, put the optical media into the optical drive, and let the OS load it.
2. Connect a firewire cable between your Mac and the borrowed mac.
3. Reboot the borrowed Mac in target mode.
4. Reboot your own Mac, holding down the "alt/option" key. The screen will turn blue and in about a minute or so, the drives on your system as well as the hard drive and optical disk on the borrowed system will show up as bootable devices.
5. Select the optical drive by clicking on it then clicking on the icon that looks like a right arrow.
The system will boot off the optical drive on the borrowed system, but you'll be able to do stuff like use disk utility to repair your volume, change passwords, etc. Just make sure you're doing this to YOUR disk and not the disk on the borrowed system.
When you put a Mac into target mode, it really just turns the computer into one big firewire interface to the computers drives whether they be optical or hard disk.
It's obviously not the most convenient way to do stuff but in an emergency it can do the trick.
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will a combo drive dvd/cdrw drive from an ibook g4 matsushita cw-8124-c work in my clamshell. i am looking to burn cds not watch dvds, i would be putting it into a clamshell 366mhz and a 300mhz (i can get a deal on 2). will the connections match up. please i need answers asap. thank you

Your drive will work in the clamshell, the problem is that the bezel can't be attached ...or it has to be modded to work. The sites I had bookmarked of such projects are no longer working. Macmod.com might have something, or this site might have some interesting links that may help...
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Re my message below regarding the dead superdrive, my computer is an iMac G4, not G3.

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hi im new to imac can you just connect a external hard drive into a imac containing music,photos and movie clips thanks

Badunit wrote:
Csound1 wrote:
If the OP only wants to read from the drive that would be OK, do you know that is what he wants?
No, do you? The OP asked if the drive can be connected. It can but there may be limitations. Saying you cannot connect an NTFS drive is not correct, it is only partly correct. I know you know that.
Have a nice day.

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Hi Bob, what do you mean by motherboard failure?
is it the graphics failure?
I have a G3 Ibook that suffered the graphics chip failure thing.
To recover my files I joined it to my G4 by firewire cable.
Started the G4 up totally then started up the Ibook whilst holding the "T" key down.
this booted the Ibook into firewire target mode.
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...can I extract it from the iBook and build it into a suitable case so it becomes an external drive for my new computer?
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Will I have worry about any software clashes between the two drives.
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I would invest in some more drive(s) for the Mac Pro though. I firmly believe in having two backup sets minimum. And to have a backup of the system as well as a "safe" emergency boot drive as well.
In order to boot from a drive on Mac Pro, it must be formatted or reformatted with GUID partition scheme (Disk Utility: Partition and at the bottom, click on "Options" to make the selection. So you may want to boot from backup/clone at some point to repair your main drive.
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My old 2002 G3 iBook died in January. The best diagnosis is that it was the logic board failure... you know, it started up for awhile while pinching on the left side of the track pad.
Now I have a new MacBook, and would like to use my old hard drive as an external hard drive. Is this possible?
Not knowing too much about logic boards, I wonder if this is something that is part of the hard drive, or not. Obviously, if the logic board is one of the components of the hard drive this would not be possible, but if it's not, is there a place with instructions on removing the old hard drive and mounting it on a sled so I can access it with firewire?
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The Apple part number is 661-2532.
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http://www.welovemacs.com/ibookcombo.html
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