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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / December 2005ibook Hard drive Replacement
Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back together without damaging anything. It was by far the most difficult disassembly I've done on a laptop, including my old PB2400. But it was manageable is you don't rush. The bad news is that my new HD was not recognized, but when I put the old one back in, it was recognized. Any idea why this is? Sure would like to put that new drive to good use. The machine is a 2001 dual USB ibook Thanks. Tho > Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back > together without damaging anything. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tho What is size of the new disk? Did you Boot CD -> Setup -> Harddiskmanager -> Intitialize disk ? You have to make the partitition manually! Florian >>Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back >>together without damaging anything. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Did you Boot CD -> Setup -> Harddiskmanager -> Intitialize disk ? > You have to make the partitition manually! It's a 40 gigger that I bought at CompUSA. I had it inside an external firewire case, with its own OS (9.2.2). But when I put it inside the case to be reformatted, it's not even recognized as being present by Apple System Profiler after booting up with the OS9 boot CD. I'd have reformat it if it was recognized, but the boot CD said that it's not present when I try to install the OS. When I swap back, everything went back to before, so the drive works fine. The upside: I'm getting really good at assembly/disassembly the ibook. It takes me only about 60 minutes for a swap now. Does your suggestion apply to OS 9? I'm not sure I 've seen a "set up" icon on the OS 9 boot CD. Thanks, Tho > Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back > together without damaging anything. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Any idea why this is? Sure would like to put that new drive to good > use. The machine is a 2001 dual USB ibook Recognized in what way? After putting a new drive in, you'll probably have to format it before you can use it. To do this you'll probably have to start up the Mac from a CD-ROM and run Disk Utility from there.  SignatureTom "Tom" Harrington Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X. Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more. See http://www.atomicbird.com/ >>Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back >>together without damaging anything. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > have to format it before you can use it. To do this you'll probably > have to start up the Mac from a CD-ROM and run Disk Utility from there. That was a pretty miserable description of symtoms...sorry. Not recognized as in: I boot up with the OS9 bootCD, and try to install the OS on the drive, but it doesn't have a destination disk. The new drive is not in the list of available drive. Apple System Profiler also doesn't see the drive. And there was a pop-up window asking me if I want to format a new drive. Tho The geometry presented by the chips in the external drive case is probably different than the native geometry when inside the Mac. Thus the need to format it to get it to work. > >>Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back > >>together without damaging anything. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Tho > >>Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back > >>together without damaging anything. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > doesn't see the drive. And there was a pop-up window asking me if I > want to format a new drive. Is there any data on this drive aside from Mac OS 9? Given the description so far, I think I'd go ahead and format the drive. If there's data on it, be sure to back it up while the drive is in the external housing, but after that, format away. SignatureTom "Tom" Harrington Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X. Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more. See http://www.atomicbird.com/ >>>>Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back >>>>together without damaging anything. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>>>Any idea why this is? Sure would like to put that new drive to good >>>>use. The machine is a 2001 dual USB ibook Hey there. Thanks all for your help. What I needed it to do was to run a little program called "Drive Setup" in the "Utilities" folder of the OS9 boot CD, which mounts the drive--making it visible to the installer program and allowing me to install the OS. Couldn't have done it w/o y'all. Many thanks. I'm now empowered with the ability to disassemble my ibook. I'm starting to think about putting in a DVD burner :-) Tho |
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