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replacing the hard drive
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wilbur
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Anyone tried this yet? (CrazyMac? You out there?)
What I really want to do is replace the iMac's HD with the HD in my iMac. And maybe later swap that for one of these huge but cheap 5400rpm HDs that are coming out now.
Assuming it's doable, any tips on how to do the replacement would be very handy.
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wilbur
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Oops. Let's hear it for proofreading...
What I meant to say was that I want to replace the HD in my *iBook* with the one in my iMac.
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I don't think you'll have much luck putting a hard drive from your iMac into your iBook.
First of all, you'll need a notebook hard drive. The power consumption of a desktop hard drive is significantly higher on a desktop hard drive relative to a notebook hard drive.
The desktop hard drive is also far too huge to put inside an iBook's case. The 3.5-inch disk drive is almost as thick as the iBook itself!
Another note... Misha replaced the hard drive on an iBook, and it requires many steps. Misha, can you post a link to that insane picture with all the parts on your desk? 
In other words, it's not possible to use the desktop hard drive on your notebook. It's not logical either.
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...And the new huge hard drives won't fit either.
As far as I know, assuming it used the same interface as the iMac (which I don't believe it does), you'd need to find a way to get a desktop-to-notebook hard drive connector converter thing.
What exactly do you plan on doing, dude? I mean... it's crazy to replace the iBook hard drive with even a better notebook drive because it takes so much time and concentration, but replacing the notebook drive with a desktop drive? Where'd you get the idea that that would work?
It's not possible. That's your final verdict.
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marcv
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caslis.com/mac/ibook/ibdrive.html
Go to the above URL for instructions to replace the HD in your iBook. I did it, it's not really hard, but it's a lot of work and stress (±3 hours).
Get a really small drive, not even all notebookdrives fit.
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What was that company again that will do it for you and even transfer your HD data to the new drive? After seeing the picts I don't think I want to do it myself.... but at the same time I would like to make sure I am sending my ibook to a good company. You would think that since we know that the HD can be replaced with a bigger Drive that Apple would authorize some of there service shops to do the work and avoid voiding the warrenty.
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MCE Powerbook Products will do it. Their web site is at http://store.powerbook1.com/ . If you have them do it, let us know how things work out... I've been thinking about having them replace my hard drive in my iBook for some time now. Hope this helps!
Cheers!
Chris
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Personally, "improvising" on your iBook the way mentioned in "wibur"'s post is kind of outlandish. Maybe he didn't know the drive sizes and all...
No matter. You can also order iBooks and PowerBooks from MCE that already have hard disk drive upgrades.
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I'm just about to put a 12gig 2.5" IDE (9.5mm) drive into my Rev 1 (3 gig) iBook.
I'll post back later to let you all know how it went 
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Ok, that has to have been the most stressful thing I have ever done in my entire life (Including total component transplants on antique synthesisers, open clock multiplier surgery on my old G3, scuba diving past a 2 metre jellyfish and facing down my previous boss).
I'm now the proud (and jittery) owner of an iBook with 2, 6 gig partitions (my iBook's called iClaudius, so I'm going to name them Romulus and Remus).
I'd got it all back together and was putting the airport card back in when I realised that the screen hadn't seated properly, and I had to take it all apart again. That's when I found a screw had cross threaded !
Over all, it took 2 hours (from the first screw being taken out), plus the hour each side backing up and restoring the original data.
Definitely not for the fainthearted. and there's NO WAY I'm going to clock this one.
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Congratulations...
You're more brave than I, and probably a lot of people on this forum...
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Thanks. The only problem is, I really don't want to have to do that again, but my brother's now commenting on how cool it would be to put a 12gig drive in his iBook (and guess who would have to do it ?)
Just for the record, I put a 12gig Hitatchi 2.5", 9.5mm high drive in. No problems with the size of the drive at all.
With IBM announcing 20gig Travelstart 9.5mm drives (and Toshiba having something similar), I was going to wait until one of those was available. But then I realised it would probably cost about £500 for the drive (around $800), and that I could get a 12gig for £250, and I was feeling foolhardy...
Now I've got space for all my work,MP3's and VCD images (I copy them to the harddrive to play, rather than use battery time running the CD) and my Rev 1 iBook can show off in front of all the Rev 2's again
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wilbur
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Yes indeed, I was clueless enough to think just maybe I could put a desktop drive in a laptop. Thanks for the replies.
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seth
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Just for information sake, there ARE adapters to take IDE (and even SCSI) laptop hard drives to regular cable size, for mounting in desktops, etc. They sell them at Fry's Electronics. Custom Cable Specialists can also make them.
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ibookmaniac
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I found a website with a photo guide of replacing or installing a new ibook hard drive. http://www.caslis.com
When there click on mac stuff. Then click on the iBook section. (Caslis.com is run on a Power Mac G3 Server, it also offers help on Powerbook and Mac OS 9 and X.)
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Aurora
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Holy **** . I'm DEFINETLY not trying that.
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I am even too scared to replace the extremely cramped hard drive on my PowerBook G3 Lombard.
The iBook wasn't meant to be tinkered with. Remember, it's a consumer model. And you can't argue that you have modified your iBook, because the majority of iBook users haven't, and people on the forum here tend to be "power users". Considerng that most iBook users do office and internet applications...
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actually, mine's used for writing games (unfortunately, not Mac ones), as well as playing them, watching VCD movies, playing CDs and MP3s and doing DTP and minor Web design work. Now I've got the 12 gig drive in it, I've got enough space to run Virtual PC.
While a powerbooks extra power and versatility would be great, I love my iBooks ruggedness and the colour (Blueberry).
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