On Feb 2, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Evan Thomas wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > My G5 appears to have experienced an HDD failure and now hangs at boot on the > logo screen. I bought it with Leopard pre-installed so I'm now in need of a > replacement SATA drive and a copy of OSX. Money is tight so cheapest possible > options. I only want to use it for Final Cut Express 4 and Adobe Creative > Suite CS3. > I would try DiskWarrior on the drive before I'd replace it. Also you can try to get a Carbon Copy off it if you have an external drive.
> SATA HDD > I was thinking something less than 100GB just for the OS. What are the > implications of type or speed of SATA drive? I'm only aware that 7200rpm is > best for video scratch disks but what about OS? I have a 320GB in there for > video scratch purposes. > > OSX > I think I can get by with Tiger? Certainly true for FCE 4. Is Snow Leopard a > stand-alone OS? Can't seem to find any G5 original installation disks for > sale. Now cruising eBay. Tiger is certainly faster than Leopard and Snow Leopard is Intel only' > > Many thanks, > Evan > > G5 / 2.0 / DP / 512MB > John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacBook Pro i7 -- -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
