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Day 2 and the HD has not choked. I'm wondering what would happen if I do put an OS on this drive, could that cause it to work harder, run faster, and overheat. Not really logical but I cannot figure out why when I have only 9 files on the HD it works fine, no overheating, the files open every...

Here's an interesting twist to this thread. After installing a different HD, without an OS, into my iBook, I've let the computer run for about six hours straight, and the internal drive is still being recognised. Not only that, but I copied a few files onto it and I'm able to open all of them...

Well, I swapped the internal drives, putting the one from the PowerBook G3 in the iBook and vice versa. I knew that the IBM coming out of the PowerBook worked just fine...and the results: the drive that was in the iBook worked perfectly on the PowerBook but the I could not load a system on the...

I haven't rang Apple support for a couple of years, but here in the UK at the time they told me that I'd have to ring an 0900 number (the equivalent of a 1-900 number) and pay per minute. This may have changed since then to a per-incident charge. Even so, its my opinion that paying anything...

What has been the outcome of your problem. I have the exact same problem with my ibook G4 1GHz 12". It works fine from an external Firewire drive but on mine, it even fails to recognise the internal drive sometimes on cold startup. I'm getting really infuriated.

Thank you both for your help. I'm curious to know how sshivaji managed to speak with anyone at Apple. In the past they've refused to even speak with me without paying per minute...even, it seems while they have me on hold. Their once helpful customer service department has become rubbish...I...

Well, I'm very sorry to see that you're iBook G4 1GHz is having the same problem as mine. I cannot boot reliably from the internal hard drive but have no problem booting and running from an external firewire drive. The only difference between mine and yours is that mine will sometimes boot, run...