Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4

2009-08-25 Thread Mac User #330250
gave you). Cheers, Andreas. -- Original message -- Subject: Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4 Date:Dienstag, 25. August 2009N From:Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Clark Martin wrote: John

Installing new internal hard drive on G4

2009-08-24 Thread joan
We have a desk top G4 Quicksilver and want to intall a new 320 GB Western digital hard drive. Does anyone know a site that will guide us through the best way to do this? Is cloning the old hard drive onto it the best? thanks, Joan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4

2009-08-24 Thread Robert Menes
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:40 PM, joanjn...@q.com wrote: We have a desk top G4 Quicksilver and want to intall a new 320 GB Western digital hard drive. Does anyone know a site that will guide us through the best way to do this? Is cloning the old hard drive onto it the best? Hi Joan, I

Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4

2009-08-24 Thread Mel
Or use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) to achieve the same result. Mel --- On Mon, 8/24/09, Robert Menes viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com wrote: From: Robert Menes viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, August 24, 2009

Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4

2009-08-24 Thread John Niven
I think you will see only 128GB on your new harddrive (you can still use it). Much better to buy a SATA pci card and then you can use a modern large HD. --- On Mon, 8/24/09, joan jn...@q.com wrote: From: joan jn...@q.com Subject: Installing new internal hard drive on G4 To: G3-5 List g3-5

Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4

2009-08-24 Thread Bill Connelly
On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:38 PM, John Niven wrote: I think you will see only 128GB on your new harddrive (you can still use it). Much better to buy a SATA pci card and then you can use a modern large HD. Which G4 QS do you have? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4

2009-08-24 Thread Clark Martin
drives. Previous models do not and will only access (and format) the first 128Gb without any special mods. --- On Mon, 8/24/09, joan jn...@q.com wrote: From: joan jn...@q.com Subject: Installing new internal hard drive on G4 To: G3-5 List g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, August 24

Re: Installing new internal hard drive on G4

2009-08-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Clark Martin wrote: John Niven wrote: I think you will see only 128GB on your new harddrive (you can still use it). Much better to buy a SATA pci card and then you can use a modern large HD. QuickSilvers are maybe on the large drive support. Those known