iMAC - change Hard Disk

[ElijahBaley]

Hello

Can anyone give me some advice as to how to change the Hard disk of a iMAC

Is it user servicable?, I am told that it will take a normal IDE drive - can this be a Disk that was previously used in a PC?

Thanks

Graham

 

[Ecaboodle]

Yes you can use a PC IDE drive. How ever not sure if you can do this yourself.

 

[PTmon]

Working on iMacs is not for the timid. The hard drive is buried and does not come out with the motherboad/cdrom, which is the only relatively easy part to get to. As MatthewA said, any pc ide drive should work fine, make sure you set the jumpers to master.
PT

 

[ElijahBaley]

Thanks for your comments,

Upon further investigation it certainly sems that it is not a job for the faint hearted - I may just leave this project for the time being!

Graham

 

[gunthnp]

Its not as hard as it looks once the computer part is out remove the cd-rom and then undo two screws and push back and it out. So long and thanks for all the fish.

 

[kfons]

Use this link it is really a piece of cake. It's cheap too - I installed a 100GB Western Digital that only cost me $80.00 at Comp USA.

http://www.theimac.com/drive_steps.shtml

 

[jimoblak]

I've been using an external USB drive on my slot-loading 350MHz G3 iMac. The internal drive is only 6Gb. I think an internal HD upgrade may be useful at this point. Is there a limit to how large of a drive I could put in?

 

[jimbopalmer]

there are some issues with drives over 128 gig, the simplest answer is that they will only format to 128 gig on your iMac.

http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/actio...onse=answer.faq.lasso&-recordID=33772&-search

is the longer answer I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[GuyMac]

Have a look on this site

http://www.theimac.com/drive_steps.shtml

It's not that hard to do. Just be carefull when opening your iMac that's all ;-)

 

[PGRAYSON]

Which model iMac is it? There are two variants of the G3 iMac in respect to board design (essentially tray loading and slot loading CD-Rom drives), and both can be swapped. However there are heat constraints, particularly on the ealier tray-loading models, so some modern drives may not be suitable.

As for the G4 flat-panel iMac, no idea!

And if anyone thinks that swapping the drive on an iMac is a problem, try a current iBook!