Hi Martin

Would the better solution would be to put a 320gb 2.5" IDE drive into the PowerBook, then you won't have to worry about storage space? It's unlikely that erasing the current drive will give a substantial performance increase as the PowerPC processor is comparatively very slow these days.

Regards

Sam

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On 29 Apr 2010, at 10:26, Martin Douglas <[email protected]> wrote:

On my PowerBook G4, I am running OS 10.5.8. Having finally found my external hard drive (after a house move about eight months ago), I am currently making a back-up with Time Machine. I would like to erase my hard disk and do a fresh install with OS X. It's such a long time ago that I can't remember whether I have the right OS disk. I have found a disk which says:

Mac OS X Leopard
CPU Drop-in DVD
Version 10.5
2Z691-6040-A

My question is whether this is the right disk to install the software on my laptop? If it is 10.5, I assume that I can upgrade to 10.5.8 by using software update. Then I can have a close look at the contents of my external drive and decide what I want to reinstall. My hard drive on the PowerBook is really quite full and I would like the opportunity to "start again".

Any advice, as always, will be gratefully received.

Martin


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