PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet): Hard Drive Replacement Instructions

Hi, the instructions indicate the hard drive is replaced via removal of the back 8 screws with a torx t8. However, on mine the screws are way smaller, and none of my torx fit it. they are really small and look like + that.
ANy ideas?

You seem to have bad instructions. Use these from iFixit:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/PowerBook-G4-Al-15-Inch-1-5-1-67-BT-2-0-LR/Hard- Drive-Replacement/64/8/Page-1
You need a #0 Philips and a 1.5mm hex, despite what iFixit says on the first page. They correct themselves later on. No Torx involved.

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Hi-
The Gigabit Ethernet only supports drives up to 137GB, or 128GB formatted.
You can use larger drives, but the portion beyond the 128GB will not be used.
Alternatives are, either an ATA PCI controller card like that from Acard, or, using a software patch, with special partitioning.
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And when you do determine which specific model you have:
[http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos|http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos >
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Sorry we are late. This forum is getting less traffic as people upgrade and responses sometime take longer. Everyone here volunteers their time, and I for one was unavailable much of yesterday.
The limiting factor on max drive size is that your PowerBook uses the older PATA drive interface, and the largest PATA 2.5-inch drives available today are about 320 GB.
What I'm reserching is the ATA bus controller in your PowerBook. Some older Macs cannot recognize more than 128GB of PATA hard drive space. However, this archived discussion from 2008:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1413918?start=0&tstart=0
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