I recently acquired a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet PDQ 266 off EBAY for $15. It's in great condition for that price. But shortly after that I began a search for CPU upgrades and found all manner of issues in getting them to work since they must be flashed and they cannot be reflashed. A week later I found the holy grail of Wallstreets, which included the CPU upgrade I had been searching for, plus other parts to: http://www.ebay.com/itm/250925797720
I had hoped to snap it up for under $100, but another bidder got feisty with me and I had to whip out my bidding bat. But in light of all that was included, I still considered it a reasonably good deal. (Some will say the Pismo or Lombard are better machines than any of the Wallstreet series, but I wanted the Wallstreet for the serial/ LocalTalk capability which the Pismo and Lombard lack.) Anyway, this second Wallstreet I purchased comes with an 80GB IDE internal hard drive that has OS 9 and Tiger on it. I want to buy an OWC SSD with IDE interface, as shown here (because it is faster, has lower power consumption, produces less heat, and is lighter): http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDMLP040/ My intent will be to move all the content of the existing 80GB hard drive over to the SSD (I assume it will fit, since the 80GB isn't maxed out). But since the 80GB drive is internet to the Wallstreet, and if I buy the SSD as a bare drive, how would I go about "cloning" the 80GB drive to the 40GB SSD? Please keep in mind that I have never owned a PowerBook before, so I am a complete novice when it comes to dealing with them. Hand-holding would be greatly appreciated. As I said, I have another Wallstreet too, if that would help transferring data from one drive to another, but I have no HDI-30 SCSI adapters or cables. And the only other SCSI machine I have is an SE/ 30, to which I have an HD20SC attached (the drive mechanism inside it is actually 4.5GB). I could buy an HDI-30 adapter or cable if needed to transfer the data from my 80GB drive to the 40GB SSD, but I want to know what is the best way to do this. Again, I want to clone out the contents of the 80GB drive and put them on the SSD, which I will then put inside the Wallstreet (after having removed the 80GB drive). Any specifics you can give, including specific URLs on where I need to purchase what you suggest would be appreciated. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
