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can i put my G4 mac's HD into a pc (as the only HD)
and if not, why the hell not? 
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Yes, should have no worries.The latest G4's use ATA-100 drives, the previous ones ATA-66, and virtually all consumer PC's support ATA drives. ATA is backward compatible so if your PC uses ATA-133 it will still work with -66 and -100 drives.
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well that wasn't really my worry... i have been told by others(may not be reliable sources) that the HD won't work while Mac OS is on it... i am guessing that is untrue 
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You'll have to format the drive to NTSF, since it will be in HSF+ (the Macs disc format).
Other than that, it should be plug-and-play.
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well if i format it, it will delete everything right...
so will it NOT work if i just take the hard drive out of my mac, "plug" it into the pc, and when i turn on the pc Mac OS X will boot?
or would i have to format it, put it in the pc, then install os x when its in the pc or what...
either i'm not getting your answer or you're not getting my question 
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Originally posted by datz:
well if i format it, it will delete everything right...
so will it NOT work if i just take the hard drive out of my mac, "plug" it into the pc, and when i turn on the pc Mac OS X will boot?
or would i have to format it, put it in the pc, then install os x when its in the pc or what...
either i'm not getting your answer or you're not getting my question
The easy answer is it will not work, period.
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Originally posted by datz:
well if i format it, it will delete everything right...
so will it NOT work if i just take the hard drive out of my mac, "plug" it into the pc, and when i turn on the pc Mac OS X will boot?
or would i have to format it, put it in the pc, then install os x when its in the pc or what...
either i'm not getting your answer or you're not getting my question
Formatting will destroy all existing data. OS X won't work on a PC, so you'll need to install a PC operating system (likely Windows) on the drive before it will work.
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Originally posted by datz:
can i put my G4 mac's HD into a pc (as the only HD)
and if not, why the hell not?
Wouldn't this work?
http://mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
-Open, edit, and save files on Mac disks from My Computer, Explorer, and your favorite software, easily and seamlessly
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-Works with SCSI, IDE, USB, FireWire (IEEE-1394), Fibre Channel and parallel port
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It would if there was another hard drive, but it sounds like this guy wants to run OS X on his PC off of his existing Mac hard drive.
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datz, your original question was if you can put a Mac HD into a PC. The answer is yes. Physically and electrically Mac HDs and PC HDs are the same these days.
Your second concern was if the drive will work in a PC. Yes it will in the sense that it will communicate with the motherboard and exchange data with the PC.
then you narrow it down to "so will it NOT work if i just take the hard drive out of my mac, "plug" it into the pc, and when i turn on the pc Mac OS X will boot?" The answer is no. Not because the drive won't work though. It's because PCs and Macs store data on drives diferently. Dunno about you, but I can't read any chinese. "Work" at this level is like someone gave me a book in chinese to read. No can do. Not because there's anything wrong with the book. Not because the pages don't flip. Not because I'm blind. It's just that the code used in the book is not what I can understand.
Hope this helps you understand why the drive WILL work, but what you want to happen won't happen.
Steve: it's NTFS and HFS, not NTSF and HSF
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