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Hi everyone ! I intend to buy a new internal hard drive (500 GB) to plug into my Power Mac G4. I really don't know what to buy. What kind of hard drive would you recommend ? Thank you very much ! Rom

I want to change the internal hard drive in my MacBook Pro 15, for a bigger and faster one but i am concerned because i have many softwares licenses (like Logic studio, Pro Tools, Kontakt, few sample libraries like EWSOgold or Motu products) and i wonder if changing the hard drive is going to...

Greetings, My iBook G4 (see sig below) has an intermittent problem. It usually sits on my desk, plugged into the power adaptor, always on. The only time I ever do a shutdown is when I'm taking it with me to the airport. Here's where the problem happens -- WHEN it happens. I start it up...

My hard drive was going out on my older G4 Imac so I took it out and replaced with a new drive. Prior to removing the older defective drive I backed everything up on an external drive. *I assumed I could just format the new drive and then reinstall the original OSX disks and then drag over...

Hi guys, I only have a SL DVD drive in my macbook and wondered how easy it was to change, also which is the best drive to upgrade it to? Or is it just better to get an external writer?

Hello all, I am a die hard mac user, (proud owner of 5 of them ) recently a friend of mine came to me with an issue, his Computer would not boot up, when it finally did it took over an hour, I brought it to my house, and backed up all of the data on his hard drive. I the used disk utility to...

I have a Power Mac G5 with the stock built-in CD/DVD drive. I'm running OS 10.4.11. Suddenly the DVD drive won't work nor does the drive show up in the system profiler. When I click on the DVD alias icon in the dock I get this error message: "There was an initialization error. A valid...

Hi All, I have an older Mac G4 running OS X (10.4.11) and I have three internal hard drives, one of which will not mount. I can hear it spinning up and trying to mount, but it won't. Is it trashed? I've tried everything I know to get it to mount. Is there a way that I can at least recover...

I just replaced the internal hard drive on my G4 iBook. My problem is the drive is not showing up in Disk Utility, the system install disk, or when I have the iBook in target mode and connected to my tower. I believe the old drive had died. When I ran the Hardware Test on it, I received an...

Here's my dilemma as briefly as I can tell it. I have a G4 15" Mac Alum 1.67GHz Powerbook. It's a nice machine and runs well. Last week it went through the xray machine at Honolulu airport for about the 50th time and when I tried to work on it waiting for my flight, the thing wouldn't boot...

Hi, I have a PPC G5 iMac 2.1GHz, 1.5GB. The Internal Hard drive is 250GB in total and partitioned into 4 sections. After working fine for ages I suddenly found I can't copy files into one of the partitions. Initially I got an error message saying: "DS_store could not be tead or written...

Okay, so last year my ibook was on its last legs and to kill it off I dropped it on the screen (by accident of course!) and I was given a quote for a new screen that almost matched what i payed for it in the first place so naturally I turned it down and my mac has been sat doing nothing for...

The hard drive of my iBook G4 is failing and I was shopping for a replacement. Looking at newegg.com it is hard to tell what would work. What I know (or think I know) is that the drive needs to be ATA, 2.5", .9mm tall. Please correct me if I am wrong, and any recommendations you can offer...

My old iBook G4 is broken and basically in parts. I was wondering if there was some kind of a 'adapter' that would allow me to use my original display as an external display through the video output port of a macbook or a windows laptop or anything. Or if theres a way I would need to rewire it...

running leopard 10.5.1. when i use get info on either the ext. hd. or the extra int. hd it shows i can read only and the lock is locked and greyed out. someone know a trick to unlocking so i can delete items from these drives??? thanks--dickster--------------------------------------:mad:

I have 2 internal Serial-ATA disks: Both were checked (with Disk Utility and DiskWarrior) and are OK. But only one of the two disks shows in the Startup Disk list in System Preferences->Startup Disk. Please I need assistance. Sincerely, Sally PowerMac G5 / OS X (V.10.4.11) 3GB memory

Have a 2.0GHz Black Macbook, and the internal mic is working intermittently. Sometimes it works great, and sometimes it just records static. In Audio MIDI setup, under the Audio Devices tab, the Clock Source is grayed out so I can't change it, and is set to "Default". Under Audio Input...

I have a hard drive originally in a TiBook that died. took it out because i couldnt find parts, but got an enclosure and used it as an external for a few years. now i found a logic board and i need to reformat the disk for boot purposes. how do i go about getting that accomplished? and can i do...

Hello, I am back on the forums :). My iMac G5 is not picking up the internal speakers. When I press one of the volume buttons it displays as normal, but with a cross below the rectangles. In audio midi setup it says 'Input is not supported' and 'output is not supported'. In the System...

I have a 2005 G5 powermac dual 2g with a 160g internal hard drive. I just installed a Seagate SATA 500g internal as well but the computer doesn't seem to recognize it. When I power up I get an initial message saying something like "You have inserted a disk that contains no volumes that Mac OSX...