Drive replacement on the emac is dooable but apple don't want you to do it. Opening it up is the easy part, but theres quite a lot of stuff inside it which is in the way of the drive. Your probably not going to break anything by having a look inside it so theres no harm in giving it a go.
On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow! Did not know you could replace a drive in an emac. > Is it hard to open one up? > On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > >> >> Hey and thanks for the reply. >> Both machines are tiger machines - I use the emac for audio and not >> much else so I figgured that i'd opt for a faster os with less >> features since I wouldn't be using many of the features in leopard - >> its a g4 1.42. >> The harddrive is a 80gb soon to be replaced with a nice and fast 250 >> 7200rpm. >> >> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I doubt you could boot using a Tiger machine. Leopard was written >>> for >>> the Intel chip set. >>> Also, how large is the hard drive of the emac? >>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:13 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hey all. >>>> >>>> I have a ibook with no harddrive in it. Before I delv into its >>>> internals I want to make sure that all the existing parts have no >>>> strange faults that would render the system unusable when it has a >>>> harddrive in it. I'd like to be able to connect the ibook to my emac >>>> and use the tiger install on the emac to boot the ibook but i'm >>>> getting conflicting messages about if this can be done or not. >>>> >>>> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has done this before - >>>> what exactly did you do? did osx find sound drivers? >>>> >>>> Fyi, I did try connecting a drive via usb and installing tiger on it >>>> but it appears that osx can only boot from firewire volumes. >>>> >>>> Thanks for reading, BEN. >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards, BEN. >> >> email: [email protected] >> msn: [email protected] >> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >> >> > > > > > > -- Kind regards, BEN. email: [email protected] msn: [email protected] web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
