On 3/30/03 3:04 AM, Dave Lee posted: >I did leave out one fairly crucial bit of information. When I put the IBM >Ultrastar 7200rpm drive in the Q605, it did sometimes give me the message >"This Startup Disk will not work on this computer. A Power PC based >computer is required to startup from this disk."
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