Replacing HDD in Pismo

Good afternoon--
Sort of a strange question, but here it goes--my MacBook Pro went "swimming" in a cup of water and did not recover Apple wants $1500 to repair it, which is almost what a new one ofthe same vintage is worth. So... I had the thought to put the HDD that is in the MacBook Pro (Seagate Momentus 100GB 7200RPM) into my Powerbook Pismo, since my Pismo is very functional and in need of a new, larger, quieter hard drive. The dimensions of the drives are the same, but the connections to the ribbon cable are vastly different. Is there a way I can get just a ribbon cable to connect the drive to my Pismo, or an adapter of sorts, or am I out of luck? I have been searching for some ideas, but am coming up empty. I know I can get an enclosure and go that route, but a new internal drive for my Pismo would be much more convienient.
Any thoughts?
Thanks--
Sean Wilcox

Thanks for the reply--that is a bummer. I ordered an enclosure, so I guess I will go that route
Thanks again--
Sean

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Dear chong2010,
what you are experiencing is not unheard of, part of the counterfeit protection on the MS OS involves taking note of certain aspects of the Hardware, including the hard drive, so changing the drive is VERY likely to trigger this reaction on part of
the OS.
All you need to do is to perform the validation process again, as you did when you initially installed the box (or initially used the box, if pre installed by manufacturer), using the same original windows key (you should have it in a label attached to the
box of the computer of in the supporting documentation of the purchase).
You can do this from "control panel" -> 'system security" -> "system" or by typing "
cscript slmgr.vbs /ato
in the command line (admin privs required in this command line)
Best Regards / Saludos, Marianok
Disclaimer: This post, and all included code and information is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. Try it at your own risk, I take no responsibilities.
Aclaración: Esta publicación, y todo en código e información en la misma, es provista "AS IS" / "Como Está" sin garantía alguna y no le confiere ningún derecho. Pruebelo su propio riesgo. No asumo responsabilidad alguna.

Replaced HDD, now MacBook Pro won't power on.

Just bought a new HDD, Seagate Momentus 750Gb (link below). Installed it in my MacBook Pro, replacing the old 160Gb drive (also a Seagate Momentus, older version though) and when I tried to boot my laptop back up it won't even power on. I don't hear anything starting up, and the status light on the front doesn't turn on either. Putting the old drive back in and booting up it works perfectly fine, just like it did before swapping drives. The drive is supposed to be compatible with my laptop (MacBook Pro 3,1 Late 2007 15"). The drive is not partitioned or formatted, but this should not affect the laptop from powering up. I have no other computer to try the drive in to see if it is DOA but even if it were it again should not affect the laptop from powering up. Any advice on what could be causing the problem or something that I may have overlooked would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Chris
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?name=st9750420as-momentus-7200-sata-3gbs-7 50-gb-hd&vgnextoid=25dcb937455b7210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD&locale=en-AU&pf=1

Hi c,
Your options, as I see them:
1. Contact Seagate tech/warranty support and see what they have to say.
2. Get an external enclosure to try the HD in.
3. Find another MBP to try the HD in.

Replacing HDD on MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)

I took my laptop in to the Apple Store and found out I needed to have both the battery and the hard drive replaced. I had them fix the battery but I figured I'd do the hard drive myself since I have heard it's not complicated. I have not done this before, but the instructions do seem fairly straightforward.
I just can't figure out which HDD to buy. So that's my question.
I have read about the differences between an HDD and an SSD and I don't think I need the SSD; that seems like more than I need for what I use the laptop for.
I'd prefer to spend less than $100, and if I could speed things up from what I currently have with that amount that'd be great too.
Thanks for any help.

Your computer will rip w/ a SSD.
I only deal with OWC and there are many reasons that I do
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_6G/
Never had a problem w/ anything I've ever bought from them in at least 8 years or so. They are Mac specialists so everything they sell works without any hassle.
I on an early 2011 MBP 13" right now.
I put a 120 GB SSD from OWC in it and bumped the RAM to 8 GB. I'm running Mavericks 10.9.5. I've been avoiding Yosemite w/ all the issues we see around here.
Photoshop CS 6 opens in 3.4 seconds. I typically have 5 desktops open, 3 browsers, Photoshop and Word and probably an average of 12 windows open at one time. Never see the spinning ball. I went w/ the smaller SSD for budget reasons. If I needed a lot of storage I'd run a conventional hard drive as a disk doubler (Check OWC site for that.) or an external.
That SSD is currently $74.99

Replacing HDD, can't format

I'm replacing the broken HDD in my 2006 white MB with a WD1600BUDT ( http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/stdadp.php?p_faqid=5383&p_created=&p_pv=2.327&pprods=227%2C327 )
and it was giving me a I/O error when I tried to format it with my 10.4 grey disk. It also showed up as being a 1.2 TB drive instead of the 160GB that it should be.
So I popped in my iMac's 10.5 grey disc to see if disk utility would allow me to format the drive there. It shows up properly as a 160GB drive there, and allows me to format it. However once I go back to the 10.4 disk to try and install the OS, the formatted partition I created wont mount.
I remember reading on WD's website that the AV drives were compatible with 10.4 and up, so I'm really hoping that I don't have to buy yet another hard drive.
Any suggestions?

Thought I would type up the solution I found in case anyone else stumbles across this page on google while looking for help.
There's no way to make this HDD work with 10.4, however 10.4.11 will work. So what I had to do was take an old hard drive I had (that had a bootable version of OSX) and plug it up with an external usb case, then boot from it and partition a small part of the drive (15 GB) and install the grey 10.4 disk onto that partition.
Once 10.4.11 was installed on the partition, I ran disk utilities from there and formatted the internal drive successfully!
Then I booted back to the main partition on the usb-connected hard drive, and used a free program called Carbon Copy Cloner to copy everything from the 15GB partition to the internal drive. Ah sweet success. Now if only it hadn't taken me all night to figure that out! lol

Do user-created recovery disks work with replacement HDD of different capacity?

The original Seagate 250GB SATA HDD in my Pavilion G60-214EM notebook has completely failed (BIOS and other Windows machines cannot even see it). I replaced it with a Samsung 160GB SATA HDD but Recovery Manager on my user-created (DVD-R) recovery disk consistently fails at 2% of "Reformatting the Windows partition of your hard disk drive". If I look at the resulting partitions from another machine I see a 10.61 GB NTFS 'RECOVERY' partition, an empty active primary NTFS partition of 37.12 GB and 101.31 GB still unallocated.
Should the user-created recovery disks work if the replacement disk drive is smaller capacity than the original?
Should they work with a larger capacity replacement drive?
If not, can HP provide recovery disks that will work with a different capacity HDD?
Thanks,
--A

Hi, I am the same predicament as you are From my experience thus far, the replacement disk drive space needs to be bigger or equal to the original HD space. (e.g.. I had a 640 gb OEM HD, I cannot install or factory reset the new 500 gb WD HD because it says its too small...)
As for question 2, I am going to try to get a 1TB hard drive, though I don't know due to the prices and such. Will post back if I do.
Question 3: I do not know, someone else may be more knowledgeable:/
Hope this helps!

Replacing HDD with SSD, is it possible. T400

If it can be replaced, is it worth it??
Specs: 7417 Core 2 duo, 2 gig memory, 160 HD, xp professional
Message Edited by Frankim3 on 07-07-2009 06:10 PM
Message Edited by Frankim3 on 07-07-2009 06:12 PM

the T400 supports SATA2 mode. Unless you need constant high speed hdd access, then you should get the SSD, otherwise, i will just invest in a high quality 7200 rpm SATA drive.
If you are planning to get the SSD you should get the latest generation one, also you would need a 1.8 inch to 2.5 inch hdd mount adapter, otherwise the ssd won't fit in the T400 hdd slot.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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