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Apple Computing Products:
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Power Mac G4 Hard Drive replacement
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 892250" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Ok, you have a Quicksilver 2002. Those also will go over the 128GB Limit so you should be fine.</p><p></p><p>By 133 drive you mean ATA133? The controller in the Quicksilver is probably ATA66 or ATA100 but it will work fine.</p><p></p><p>You have an OSX install CD I take it? I wonder if the image you made in Disk Utility is bootable?</p><p></p><p>Is this external USB or Firewire? My understanding is Power PC Macs will not boot off USB but only Firewire.</p><p></p><p>On the chirping issue, not sure which revision those Deskstar drives are, but there was a MAJOR failure issue with the IBM 75GXP series and Hitachi bought IBM's drive division. I had a 40GB Deskstar in my Digital Audio chirp then die. I was lucky and able to back it up before it totally died. I would not be shocked at all if both of them are toast!</p><p></p><p>If the external drive is USB, boot with the OSX media. I would boot with OSX CD and run Disk Utility and partition/Erase the new drive and be sure it's all showing up then use Disk Utility to image to the new drive from your back up.</p><p></p><p>Keep us posted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 892250, member: 8287"] Ok, you have a Quicksilver 2002. Those also will go over the 128GB Limit so you should be fine. By 133 drive you mean ATA133? The controller in the Quicksilver is probably ATA66 or ATA100 but it will work fine. You have an OSX install CD I take it? I wonder if the image you made in Disk Utility is bootable? Is this external USB or Firewire? My understanding is Power PC Macs will not boot off USB but only Firewire. On the chirping issue, not sure which revision those Deskstar drives are, but there was a MAJOR failure issue with the IBM 75GXP series and Hitachi bought IBM's drive division. I had a 40GB Deskstar in my Digital Audio chirp then die. I was lucky and able to back it up before it totally died. I would not be shocked at all if both of them are toast! If the external drive is USB, boot with the OSX media. I would boot with OSX CD and run Disk Utility and partition/Erase the new drive and be sure it's all showing up then use Disk Utility to image to the new drive from your back up. Keep us posted. [/QUOTE]
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