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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 715051" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>Can we have the specs of that iMac, and is SATA right for that model? The brand of HD shouldn't matter, as long as it's formatted correctly for the Mac.</p><p></p><p>Now you've got the HD up and running, use Disk Utility in Leopard to determine how the drive is formatted. If it is HFS+, you should be okay to start putting applications etc on it.</p><p></p><p>However, if it is FAT32 or NTFS, you will need to reformat it to HFS+ with the original disks that came with the iMac when it was first bought. Hopefully that was your brother and that he has the disks. If not, you may need to buy a full retail version of Leopard (maybe Tiger) to format that hard drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 715051, member: 56231"] Can we have the specs of that iMac, and is SATA right for that model? The brand of HD shouldn't matter, as long as it's formatted correctly for the Mac. Now you've got the HD up and running, use Disk Utility in Leopard to determine how the drive is formatted. If it is HFS+, you should be okay to start putting applications etc on it. However, if it is FAT32 or NTFS, you will need to reformat it to HFS+ with the original disks that came with the iMac when it was first bought. Hopefully that was your brother and that he has the disks. If not, you may need to buy a full retail version of Leopard (maybe Tiger) to format that hard drive. [/QUOTE]
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