It is not necessary although might be preferable to have to use an external HD "for moving stuff from the old hard drive ot the new one."
Your internal HD is probably identified via jumpers as "Master." Any IDE HD can be installed as a slave, assuming that the ribbon cable and power supply are available in your machine (they should be). After installing a slave HD, and initializing and reformating HFS+ and as you please (I.E. - with or without partitions), then download CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) on your Master HD by going to Google and typing "Carbon Copy Cloner" and then slecting "Carbon Copy Cloner Mac." I got 101,000 hits and here is the very first link. Carbon Copy Cloner - HomeExplore Carbon copy cloner · Support · Download · Home Features Support Donate Contact © 2002-2009 Bombich Software, LLC. Carbon Copy Cloner Icon. www.bombich.com/ Download CCC and install as instructed and follow the instructions for copying from the Master HD to the slave HD. After CCC finishes (it might take anywhere from 20 minutes to close to an hour) , you should be able to boot from your slave HD by gooong to Systems Preferences and selecting the slave HD. Good luck. Mel --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Kasey Smith <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kasey Smith <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Newbie! Memory and Video card upgrade for G4 dual 867Mhz PowerPc To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 6:14 AM On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Patrick Lee wrote: > Hi! I'm TOTALLY new to Mac, so pardon me if I sound clueless! > > I have a G4 dual 867Mhz with nVidia 32MB AGP display, running Mac OS > 10.3.9. I'd like to upgrade to OS 10.5. Therefore, I'm thinking of > upgrading the RAM to 2GB, which is the max. > > 1. What's the memory stick that I can use? 512MBper stick or 1GB or > 2GB? > > 2. For the VRAM, is 32MB the max? > > 3. How can I upgrade my 60GB HDD to 160GB? Any 3.5" IDE HDD will do? > Can I do clone my existing HDD to the new HDD without re-installing > everything? If yes, how/what software do I use? > > I'm also thinking of replacing the DVD-ROM with a DVD-RW. Will any > DVD-writer do? > > Appreciate some advice on this. Thanks. Patrick. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/g3-5-list Im not sure about the RAM, but if it has 4 slots it probably takes 512MB sticks in each. To upgrade the VRAM, you need a new video card. The optical drive is standard, but not all drives have burning support in OSX. Fo those drives that don't there's PatchBurn (google it.) And finally, you will need an external enclosure for moving stuff from the old hard drive ot the new one. Any hard drive will do for the internal. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
