iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade

iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade

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Name: Stormstar1
Date: January 30, 2005 at 19:55:46 Pacific
Subject: iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade
OS: Panther
CPU/Ram: 1.8 / 256

Comment:

I plan on upgrading the hard drive for the iMac I ordered myself. If I go buy the hard drive, just any SATA that is compatible, when I boot up, what happens? Is there something to walk me through loading the OS or am I just lost?

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Response Number 1

Name: bobw
Date: January 31, 2005 at 10:09:07 Pacific
Subject: iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade

Reply: (edit)

You'll need to boot from the OS CD and format and install
the system.

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Response Number 2

Name: ClaptonFan
Date: February 3, 2005 at 15:23:13 Pacific
Subject: iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade

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if the mac doesnt see the hard drive run the disk utility, this solved some problems in seeing the drive when i up-graded. hope this helps

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Response Number 3

Name: Stormstar1
Date: February 5, 2005 at 08:39:01 Pacific
Subject: iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade

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Okay, I've got my iMac from FedEx, and I've opened it up
to install the new drive, but there's a cable I don't know
anything about and am very afraid to touch. It looks sort
of soddered to this grey frame, which is held in with an
odd "star of david" looking screw. The two SATA cables
popped out fine but I don't know what to do about that
third one and I don't want to keep the 80GB drive, I've got
a lovely 250GB waiting to take it's place.

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Response Number 4

Name: Some Dude
Date: February 7, 2005 at 17:19:18 Pacific
Subject: iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade

Reply: (edit)

The other cable is a temperature sensor that the machine uses to figure out how much/how fast to run the fan. The screw are called torx, you can get a screwdriver for them at any hardware store (or get a multi-tip screwdriver with a whole set of tips). You need to remove the old drive from the frame and then install the frame on your new drive before you can mount the drive in the iMac. See http://www.apple.com/support/doityourself and find the article on replacing the hard drive in your iMac.
However, that article assumes you are installing a drive you got from Apple. I am installing a Maxtor SATA drive (L01M200). When I try to reinstall MacOS X and I get to the "destination" screen, it sees my drive (after running Disk Utility), but it has a big red ! on it and says "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. You cannot start up your computer from using this volume." Hmmm. Tried using Disk Utility again to erase and repair the drive. Repair says the drive is OK. Not sure what to do next.

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Response Number 5

Name: ryanreyes
Date: February 27, 2005 at 16:49:04 Pacific
Subject: iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade

Reply: (edit)

hi im thinking about upgrading my g5 imac. i dont know
what kind of hd to get? what are the best ones out there.
does this void the warrenty if i do it myself. are there
anything i should know about

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