I am rather new to Mac OS and was considering upgrading the HDD of a G4/400/AGP from 10GB to like 40GB or more. Are there any limitations ? It looks like a standard IDE HDD (atapi) - Can I use PC driveimage to simply copy the entire drive to the NEW HDD and the mac will recognize the new disk area ? Can I simply use any mfg HDD like Maxtor or Western Digital, etc. ?
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osx 10.3 replace HDD
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Most G4s of that age are limited to about 127 gig per Drive, unless you get a newer IDE card.
Early G3s had a 8 gig issue, but you can partition around that, and by the G4s it was not an issue.
Any vendors drive will work.
I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.
Early G3s had a 8 gig issue, but you can partition around that, and by the G4s it was not an issue.
Any vendors drive will work.
I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.
Your machine should be able to handle 2 hard drives - rather than replacing your drive. That saves having to copy out your old drive and worrying about losing data - if you don't have an outboard backup hard drive (which you really should for safety's sake).
If you need the manual for your machine to see how to add a drive go here.
You'll probably find that the hard drive that came with your computer is and IBM. I've never seen anything else in any mac. They're readily avalable at OWC
OWC also has additonal info on their site as they're a mac specialist.
If you need the manual for your machine to see how to add a drive go here.
You'll probably find that the hard drive that came with your computer is and IBM. I've never seen anything else in any mac. They're readily avalable at OWC
OWC also has additonal info on their site as they're a mac specialist.
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Just in case anyone else wanted to replace their HDD with a new one and not just ADD one. Here is what I did:
1) Installed new empy HDD as SLAVE
2) Used disk utilities in the application folder to partition the new HDD
3) downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner from: Ran CCC wiyth all the defaults. Once complete I removed the original HDD and repinned the new one as MASTER.
Thats it! Could not have been easier. I work on PC's alot and this Mac stuff is GREAT. I might just be a convert. If it was not so hard getting hardware / driver support the Mac would be the ultimate platform. Thanks to everyone that responded on my original post it was all really good information.
1) Installed new empy HDD as SLAVE
2) Used disk utilities in the application folder to partition the new HDD
3) downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner from: Ran CCC wiyth all the defaults. Once complete I removed the original HDD and repinned the new one as MASTER.
Thats it! Could not have been easier. I work on PC's alot and this Mac stuff is GREAT. I might just be a convert. If it was not so hard getting hardware / driver support the Mac would be the ultimate platform. Thanks to everyone that responded on my original post it was all really good information.
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