Can I put a Toshiba IDE (MK1517GAP) in my titanium powerbook G4

[Jesse714]

Originally Posted by Satcomer

Look at a guide. Have you ever opened a laptop before?

Hey, You accidentally gave him an aluminum powerbook. He need's a titanium, but its really simple to take the back off, its just like delta mac said, but instead there phillip's (at least the 500MHz one i had were, sorry djackmac if im wrong)

Your Powerbook

[DeltaMac]

Jesse714 - I plead ignorance - it was really djackmac

[Jesse714]

Ah, haha, Sorry about that, Your names are easy to mix up, ill change it

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by kpark11

... The reason I'm grabbing a small drive is because the computer is going to be for my 4 year old son. ...

The drive only cost me $10, so it was a pretty good deal. ...

Any other thoughts/suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

KP

Your 15 GB hard drive for $10 is not a good deal. It is not a good deal in terms of the $/GB of available drives. It is not a good deal in terms of its capacity.

You didn't give the specific model of your PowerBook, but it is quite likely that it shipped with a larger hard drive. With sufficient hard drive capacity, the computer can easily run MacOS X 10.4 plus Classic. With only 15 GB of hard drive capacity, it will be limited to MacOS 9.2 and/or MacOS X 10.3.9.

I strongly suggest that you look-up your specific model. Determine its minimum hard drive and OS requirements. You may find every PowerBook model ever manufactured on the Apple-History.com website.

[Jesse714]

The 500MHz one that i bought, only came with a 10 gig hard drive.

But the computer is for his son said, 15 gigs for a young kid, with a couple of (small) games, will do just fine. I would recommend putting in at least a 40gig,which will cost more than 15 buck.

[kpark11]

Hey guys, thanks for all the action on the thread. The problem isn't with replacing the actual drive, that was the easy part. Now I'm having an issue loading the OS onto the new drive. I'm using the "Software Install" CD and when I hold down Ctrl when I reboot it just errors out with the following grey screen error.

"The Installer has unexpectedly quit. (error 1)

Press the Return key to restart the computer...
kmod_destroy: com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI (id 42), deallocating 14 pages starting at 0x12552000.....
"

I'm attaching a photo.

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by kpark11

... Now I'm having an issue loading the OS onto the new drive. I'm using the "Software Install" CD and when I hold down Ctrl when I reboot it just errors out with the following grey screen error.

...

You cannot install an OS on your computer that is older than the one that the computer shipped with. Also, you cannot use the System Restore disc for one computer to install the OS on another.

[kpark11]

Thanks MisterMe. But I'm trying to install from the disks that shipped with the G4. I believe it is 10.0.4.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
KP