Swapping an iPod hard drive for an iBook hard drive?

I have a broken iPod which should have a fully functional hard drive. And I have an iBook G4 with a fried hard drive. I took the ipod apart and pulled the hard drive. My question is, can I put the iPod hard drive in the iBook? They're both IDE drives right? So it should just be a matter of going through the 200 step iBook disassembly procedure right?
The iPod hard drive isnt large but I'd like to resurect the iBook if at all possible.

Duane wrote:
nlmart, Welcome to the discussion area!
One thing to be aware of is that Apple has always recommended against using the iPod as a system hard drive. Presumably the operation as a system hard drive is more stressful than that of a music file server.
Performance would also suffer compared to even a 4200RPM 2.5" drive. Not to mention that most 2.5" 5400RPM (or even 7200RPM) drives will absolutely blow away a 1.8" iPod drive in terms of transfer rate.

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