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Its a one cable deal, i've made sure, because i still have the old drive, and the connections look exactly the same, It would make sense if the ribbon cable was broken, but like i said, i tried it in two powerbook's just to be sure i didn't need a new hard drive ribbon. When i had my brothers...

Oh okay, excuse me, i thought you were on the laptop, and i was reading it directly out of my settings. Im going to say that the hard disks going to sleep could be the issue, but it probably only puts your disc drive to sleep, rather than your hard drive, But you should try to uncheck it, and...

The Powerlight? If you mean the white light that fades on and off, no, thats a sleep indicator, like when you close the screen is that the same light your talking about? It sounds as if you've already set this up in system preferences, but did you check or uncheck ( Put the hard disks to sleep...

The disc drive doesn't spin at all, and it wasn't warm when i took it back out. That answered my question though, thank you. I booted from my install disc, and it wasn't there in disc utility, i shut down, took the drive out, took my connector back off, and put it back on, made sure that there...

Whats the difference between a PATA hard drive and an ATA hard drive? I bought one of ebay for my 15" Powerbook, i got it today, and it doesn't work lol. But the post clearly says, will work with all ibook's, and Powerbooks, So im not sure if it's the right kind of drive. The HD i ordered is on...

I do agree, but, like he said he's a teenager, under 18 and can't come up with 1000 bucks plus shipping, but spending 200 wouldn't be such a big deal. The iBook G4's came with 60 gig hard drives i think, that's plenty of space for alot of people, ram is 35, leopard is 129 brand new (cheaper on...

Yes you can. Boot from your OS X install disc, follow instructions, hit option before install, and select upgrade ( it should be selected by default)

Well, you should also remember, that tiger was released in 2005, and tiger in 2007, so your going to see a good performance upgrade when/if you decide to load leopard. The spinning colorwheel could be caused by alot of things. What size hard drive do you have, and whats the RPM speed?

Oh yay!! I feel so good know that i actually helped some one :) Your very welcome, i love this site, ive needed help a few times my self. Sometimes running leopard does cause problems with old needed programs, but i would highly recommend giving it a shot, even if you wanted to install it on an...