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<blockquote data-quote="rfomlover" data-source="post: 1827238" data-attributes="member: 140583"><p>Hello, bought this AS-IS PBG4 17&quot; as it was missing its internal hard drive. Picked up another IDE HDD for it and went to put it in. Then I saw it was missing the HDD cable as well. I ordered 821-0325-a as the replacement cable. Fast forward a week or so, I go to put it all together, set the IDE drive to master and try to view it in the OS X installer in Disk Utility. No HDD is visible. I took it apart again and reseated the cable and the same issue persists. I am able to boot it off of another PBG4 in target disk mode and the computer works fine, aside from not being able to detect an internal hard drive. Is there a different cable that I should order? I saw some old forum posts around on google from like 2006 mentioning that there was different cables available for the 15&quot; model depending on whether or not it was a hi-res one. Could not find any such info for the 17&quot; Before I toss this otherwise mint PBG4 in the trash, does anyone else have any ideas? Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="rfomlover, post: 1827238, member: 140583"] Hello, bought this AS-IS PBG4 17" as it was missing its internal hard drive. Picked up another IDE HDD for it and went to put it in. Then I saw it was missing the HDD cable as well. I ordered 821-0325-a as the replacement cable. Fast forward a week or so, I go to put it all together, set the IDE drive to master and try to view it in the OS X installer in Disk Utility. No HDD is visible. I took it apart again and reseated the cable and the same issue persists. I am able to boot it off of another PBG4 in target disk mode and the computer works fine, aside from not being able to detect an internal hard drive. Is there a different cable that I should order? I saw some old forum posts around on google from like 2006 mentioning that there was different cables available for the 15" model depending on whether or not it was a hi-res one. Could not find any such info for the 17" Before I toss this otherwise mint PBG4 in the trash, does anyone else have any ideas? Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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