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upgrading the internal hard drive in an old iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="Badger" data-source="post: 207839"><p>Firstly, the genius needs to go back to school. There is no way to mount a second hard drive inside any G3 iMac. Secondly, as you discovered, you have two choices; you can replace the internal drive with a new one, or you can use an external drive. The internal drive is cheaper and makes a cleaner installation but an external drive can be used as a backup drive and can moved to another computer. Check out this site: <a href="http://www.appletalk.com.au/forums/index.php?showtopic=436" target="_blank">http://www.appletalk.com.au/forums/index.php?showtopic=436</a>. It has a complete, illustrated guide to upgrading the HDD in this model. It is really just a matter of switching the connections from the old disk to the new one and matching the jumpers. Now the other issue is whether you want to transfer the data from the old disk to the new. If you do then you'll need some type of external storage. You can use an external hard disk or CD-Rs to hold the data and then transfer it into the new disk. If you're not trying to save the data then you can just install the new drive and go from there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Badger, post: 207839"] Firstly, the genius needs to go back to school. There is no way to mount a second hard drive inside any G3 iMac. Secondly, as you discovered, you have two choices; you can replace the internal drive with a new one, or you can use an external drive. The internal drive is cheaper and makes a cleaner installation but an external drive can be used as a backup drive and can moved to another computer. Check out this site: [url]http://www.appletalk.com.au/forums/index.php?showtopic=436[/url]. It has a complete, illustrated guide to upgrading the HDD in this model. It is really just a matter of switching the connections from the old disk to the new one and matching the jumpers. Now the other issue is whether you want to transfer the data from the old disk to the new. If you do then you'll need some type of external storage. You can use an external hard disk or CD-Rs to hold the data and then transfer it into the new disk. If you're not trying to save the data then you can just install the new drive and go from there. [/QUOTE]
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