Problems installing second hard drive and second DVD recorder

I have tried about every combination of tricks to install a second hard drive. I want to add a 250GB, WD IDE hard drive to my 3000J 115 7387A32 on the IDE channel. I have set up the bios then added the drive and the reverse but cannot get computer to boot in either case. It locks on the first screen where is says hit Enter to.... Enter makes the text go away, but nothing after. I am trying to install it as a single drive on the secondary IDE channel.
I know the HD is good as I removed it from another computer. It does have Win XP on it. I will format it using Vista IF I can get it installed.
Basically, I am having the same problems within stalling the second DVD, which is SATA.

Your initial hard drive should be jumpered as Master. When you install a second hard drive it must be jumpered Slave. There should be a diagram on the case of the HD showing the jumper locations.
Power Macintosh G3 and G4: IDE Master and Slave Support and Configuration
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24342
Power Mac G4: Installing Internal Storage Devices
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1815
 Cheers, Tom

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Can I add a second hard drive and if so what cable etc would I need to do so?
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For many 17" (or 17.3") machines such as Envy 17, dv, Pavilion 17 .... you can add a second HDD (my old loan dv7 has two HDD's and my current loan Envy 17 also has 2 HDD's). You would need the following kit:
http://www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=379
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BH
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On a macbook I purchased secondhand hard drive got corrupted and I started to get the flashing folder with the question mark, I purchased a new hard drive and snow lion install DVD I installed the hard drive and tried disc but kept getting blinking folder

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We're users here and do not speak for "Apple Inc."
Power on the computer and insert the DVD immediately.
Hold down the 'C' key to boot from the Snow Leopard DVD.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1533
After selecting the appropriate language, if necessary, select Utilities, and Disk Utility.
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA161/en_US/MacBook_13inch_HardDrive_DIY .pdf
(Yes, these instructions ARE 7 years old, but the procedure is the same for installing from DVD media.)

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Installed new hard drive and windows 7 at the same time. Left old hard drives in computer, installed firefox however I have no idea in which file the old bookmarks are located. I still have the old files for firefox in the old drives.

Your "Firefox personal data", like bookmarks, are stored in your Profile folder in Firefox. See this support article about how to recover that data from that old hard drive and transfer it your your new Profile.
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I recently brought a HD PVR, i put in the disk to install the hard drive and it said " This program doesn't support DOS Mode! how do i get out of DOS Mode?? Please Help

I recently brought a HD PVR, i put in the disk to install the hard drive and it said " This program doesn't support DOS Mode! how do i get out of DOS Mode?? Please Help

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Can I make a second libary on a second hard drive and how do I switch back and forth

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Installed new hard drive and ram but freezes on apple logo

i have a mid 2010 macbook pro and last night i opened it up and installed a 750GB hard drive and 8gb of ram.
now my computer doesn't want to boot up, even with the install DVD (original one)
i have done the PRAM thing and even went back to my old hard drive and even that one freezes on the apple logo.
the spinning wheel spins for about 30 seconds then freezes.
HELP, i need my macbook working.
Also, my windows partition works for some reason, but i can't go to disk utility or anything from it.

https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

Problems installing new hard drive - pt. 2

Hi there,
I have been using a G4 for years for my music (Pro Tools). I had the standard 29GB hard drive, and I had added a second 40GB drive, and those worked well for me for years.
A few weeks ago, the system started acting up, and it seemed like the 29GB hard drive was shot. So, I got a new one (320GB) and installed it, setting it as Master and keeping the old 40GB one as Slave.
I tried to install both OS9 and OSX on the new drive, but had problems (as chronicled in this previous thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2478863&start=0&tstart=0).
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Neither the OSX installer, the OSX Disk Utility, or the OS9 Disk Utility seems to "see" the new drive now.
Any thoughts/theories/suggestions on what it might be? Just before the 10.3 installed successfully, I had opened the computer and pressed the IDE cable connections down, just to make sure they were secure. I don't know if that did anything, but it might have.
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Some earlier PowerPC Macs need to have OS X installed on the first 8 GB of the HDD. Mac OS X: Disk Appears Dimmed (or "Grayed Out") in the Installer. I am not sure if that is the case with your computer, but it might be a factor.
On the other hand, if you previously had both OS 9 and OS X installed on the HDD without an 8 GB partition the issue may be elsewhere.
Try this:
Format and Install OS 9
This process will completely erase everything on your Hard Disk Drive. Be sure to Backup your User Folder and all third party apps you can't afford to lose
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• Go to Drive Setup and reformat your drive as Mac OS Extended (HFS+)
• Reinstall OS 9
• Update to 9.2.2: Mac OS 9: Available Updates
• Update your firmware
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• Choose to Customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer drivers.
• Check box to install BSD Subsystems (Panther & earlier).
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You probably bought the wrong RAM that has different pin assignments, so it won't fit in the slot. Return it.
I bought 4GB Memory online for my MacBook, so I could get it to run twice as fast.
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http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-windows-7-by-phone.aspx
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Windows 7 won't load after installing new Hard Drive and Recovery software

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Windows-7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit
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http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-windows-7-by-phone.aspx
Any additional drivers you may need can be found Here.
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Problems installing new hard drive

Hi
I have a HP Pavilion DV6000 (or according the the bios DV6700) and the original hard drive is on the way out, as the machine locks up after a short while of being logged on. I ran the hard drive diagnostics from the bios and it confirmed that there was a fault with the hard drive and i should replace it. I stupidly never made any recovery disks and as the machine locks up i cannot make any recovery disks, so im going to have to do a clean install of Vista from a CD i got from work, and thats where ive hit a problem!
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Playlists Missing After Install New Hard Drive and Upgrade to Win 7

My computer needed a new hard drive and I upgraded from Win Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium.
I am trying to get my Playlists back for my iTunes in my "Administrator" user account, after reinstalling iTunes and putting my music libraries back onto my computer.
(I had installed 32-bit Win7 OS myself, computer worked OK for about 1 day, then would not boot up; I took computer to shop, they said I needed new Hard Drive, and I gave them my new Win7 OS computer disks)
I am confused over whether I have 32-bit OS or 64-bit OS. They recommended installing 32-bit OS, I agreed, and believed that I had 32-bit OS installed; however, Computer / System Properties state "System type: 64-bit Operating System"
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("My Administrative Account"): Users / Owner / My Music
and
("My User Account"): Users / Yank / My Music
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If helpful, I could describe what is in each of these 2 backed-up music folders.
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Because I had trouble merging My Music folders in the Owner folder, and I was confused, I copied everything that was in the Owner folder into a new folder in the Owner folder, "NEW OWNER FOLDER." I also copied my Owner Music folder into several places in my Users / Owner folder.
I also ended up changing the "iTunes Media folder location" several times, using iTunes "Edit / Preferences / Advanced tab / change "iTunes Media folder location". When I chose "Reset," it shows "C:\Users\Owner\NEW OWNER FOLDER\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media"
I've also played around with "Edit / Preferences / Advanced tab / 'Keep iTunes Media folder organized' "
When I open my iTunes, I have no playlists.
However, when I went to my "Yank" user account and opened iTunes for the first time, the playlists associated with that account were visible.
How do I get my playlists back on my Administrative Account, which is my main song collection and had many, many playlists?
Thank you.

YAY!
I didn't try shift-start of iTunes, but I DID GET MY PLAYLISTS BACK BY FOLLOWING YOUR OTHER ADVICE:
I went to my external hard drive, went to my backup at Users / Owner / My Music / iTunes / and searched for library.itl
Four files with that name were found, with different dates.
I chose the most recent, dated just a few days before I made my backup to the external hard drive.
I copied it to my computer's hard drive into the following location:
C:\Users\Owner\NEW OWNER FOLDER\Music\iTunes
which overwrote the file which was located there.
When I opened iTunes, ALL MY WONDERFUL PLAYLISTS WERE THERE!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SOLVING THIS FOR ME!
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW DISAPPOINTED I FELT WHEN I BELIEVED THAT I HAD LOST ALL OF THE PLAYLISTS WHICH I HAD CREATED OVER THE YEARS? Many of my playlists were composed of whole albums whose songs I had added to iTunes.
THANK YOU AGAIN SO MUCH!

Has anyone had trouble with their computer recognizing your I phone after installing new hard drive and reloading I tunes?

Has anyone had a problem with their computer recognizing their I phone ? I had to replace my hard drive And reloaded iTunes but know it doesn't recognize my phone but it will download pictures from it?

I had my HD replaced under the recall program. I am running 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1.7 on a 2.8GHz iMac.
I haven't noticed any significantly different behavior of Safari since having my HD replaced and using Time Machine to restore my data. The only thing I've run across in about 2 weeks is that Safari's Preferences panel takes a bit longer to load than I remember.
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