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installing new/old hard drive in g3
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hello again, i'm wanting to install another hard drive into my g3 b&w. there is already a 40 gig in the machine. the hard drive i'm putting in is from an old sony vaio. it's a 27 gig. my question is: is it as easy as hitting up disk utility and initializing the drive? do i just plug the drive in, start up the computer and use disk utility to format the drive?
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Originally posted by atomico37:
hello again, i'm wanting to install another hard drive into my g3 b&w. there is already a 40 gig in the machine. the hard drive i'm putting in is from an old sony vaio. it's a 27 gig. my question is: is it as easy as hitting up disk utility and initializing the drive? do i just plug the drive in, start up the computer and use disk utility to format the drive?
How are you installing this? Depending on the revision version of your B+W, you might need to add an ATA PCI card.
Early versions of the B+W have problems running two drives off of the main IDE bus. In some cases, drive corruption occurs (although it never has on mine). Do a search on XLR8yourmac.com for more info.
Once you get that sorted out, yep, it's as easy as attaching it to either the internal bus (setting the jumpers as a slave drive) or to an IDE PCI card, booting up and formatting it with disk utility.
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Originally posted by atomico37:
hello again, i'm wanting to install another hard drive into my g3 b&w. there is already a 40 gig in the machine. the hard drive i'm putting in is from an old sony vaio. it's a 27 gig. my question is: is it as easy as hitting up disk utility and initializing the drive? do i just plug the drive in, start up the computer and use disk utility to format the drive?
I have 3 hard drives in my B&W G3. It all depends on whether your motherboard has the later chip on the IDE controller. Again, check out XLR8yourmac.com. for this info. If it has, use an ATA100 cable, not a standard IDE cable to connect them. I orignally had all sorts of problems getting Drive Setup to recognize the drive. Once I connected them with an ATA100 cable, all was okay (don't forget the master/slave jumpers on both drives.) Also, try to get one of the later drive brackets to mount them like the later B&W G3's and G4's had. 
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