I may be wrong, but what I was hearing is 'My system is complaining/ won't run right/ is having problems' It's down to 3GB of free space' "HELP"
That is NOT a Number of HDs available problem!, it's a Space used on the boot HD/partition problem. Curable by increasing space available, or reducing space used. Adding HDs, does nothing to cure the problem, it does give one alternatives as to HOW to proceed with the cure though. Chuck D. On Jan 15, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Mike Baker wrote: > Depending on how many hard drives you have in it already, you can > at least two EIDE hard drives internally fairly easily. One would > go on top of the existing hard drive, and one would go towards the > front of the case. The power and other cables for the two new hard > drives already exist in the case. If you wanted to, you could > replace the optical drive with another hard drive and the Zip drive > with another hard drive, albeit a 2.5" hard drive due to the > smaller space. Instructional videos are available at Other World > Computing. Keep in mind that without installing a new hard drive > controller card in a PCI slot, the maximum size of the hard drives > would be 128 GB. I have a 20 GB hard drive in my 450, and a 160 GB > external hard drive connected to the 450 via Firewire. Once I get > two internal hard drives for the 450, I will disconnect the 160 GB > hard drive and move it to another computer. > > --- On Thu, 1/15/09, Charles Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Charles Davis <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Need advice on hard disk space on G4 > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 4:57 PM > > On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:13 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I just > upgraded my G4 450mhz to Tiger. Now I'm running out of hard > disk > space.....I only have 3GB left. I'm a Graphic Designer with > Adobe > programs. Any suggestions on how to get more disk space? > Maybe > internal or external drive or some other type of storage? > > > Thanks in advance > paula > Ouch ---- Immediately if not sooner, > look over the contents of 'Trash', remove the 'goodies' that you > really don't want to disappear, and "Empty Trash". Hopefully you > still have enough 'headroom' for the 'Empty Trash' program to run > successfully. That should retrieve a significant bit of space, > enough to give you time to cure your HD deficit. If 'Empty Trash' > won't run, STOP trying to run that system till you get an External > Firewire drive that you can boot from. HTH, Chuck D. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
