Western Digital WD400AAJB Caviar SE 400GB Hard Drive - 7200, 8MB, ATA-100 E

Western Digital WD400AAJB Caviar SE 400GB Hard Drive - 7200, 8MB, ATA-100 EIDE, OEM
I found this drive at CompUSA (Tiger Direct) and I wondered if it would work in my mac. Can anyone advise on this?
Yours in Mac OS X 10.4
Jose Mauricio Cuervo
Message was edited by: José Cuervo
Message was edited by: José Cuervo

Hi Kappy,
I assumed since I posted in the MDD FW800 POWERMAC G$ section that it was understood that I have a MDD FW800. Anyway I have a FW 800 1GHz tower. Will this dirve be ok? Thanks for your helkp in advance.
Yours in Mac OS X,
Jose Mauricio CUervo

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(sorry for my bad english)
Attachments:
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Portege R835-P94
Show us the whole path, so we can see the file name.
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YAY!
I didn't try shift-start of iTunes, but I DID GET MY PLAYLISTS BACK BY FOLLOWING YOUR OTHER ADVICE:
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C:\Users\Owner\NEW OWNER FOLDER\Music\iTunes
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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!

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