Re: [PLUG] Old hard drive laying around?

["Amul Shah" <amul@amulz.com>]

Ah, sorry for being dense, thanks for the explanation.  What year is the drive from.  I'll open my old G3 to see what it has in it.
thanks,
Amul


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On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:41 -0400, "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
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> Amul:
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> The only reason the HD version is important is because it has stopped
> spinning
> and I'm trying to do a "cheap" recovery of the data (if possible.)  I
> will soon
> put a new HD in the old G4 but that's not going to get the data off of
> the old HD.
> 
> If I can find a similar (hopefully identical) circuit card I MAY be able
> to get
> the old drive to work - at least long enough to extract the data from it.
> 
> Hence, my odd request.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/17/2010 09:54 AM, Amul Shah wrote:
> > HD brand and model are not important in Desktop Macs.  For Laptop Macs, go to
> > NewEgg and read the reviews by Mac owners.
> > 
> > The only thing that is important is the interface, which should be IDE for you. 
> > You might have a disk capacity limitation based on older hardware (for the
> > jokers: Intel machines of the same age have similar limitations).  If you have
> > disks lying around, put one of them in there an reinstall.
> > 
> > Which model G4 do you have?
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Amul
> > 
> > On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> > 
> > Doug:
> > 
> > Since I'm trying to swap the electronics on the drive I suspect that brand is
> > essential and model is probably important.  This is a 180 Gig Western Digital
> > Caviar drive so I'm guessing that at least a WD Caviar of similar capacity would
> > be required.  Please let me know if you have any WD Caviar drives in the bunch.
> > All I have is a boat-load of old Maxtor drives and a couple of Seagate
> > Barracudas.
> > 
> > At my wife's suggestion I'm looking at ebay and craig's list too.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Eric
> > 
> > On 07/16/2010 01:08 PM, Douglas Muth wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
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> >>>>> My son's G4 Mac died and apparently it's due to the hard drive not working.  I
> >>>>> put the drive in an external case and it did not spin-up so I suspect the
> >>>>> electronics board is bad.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'd like to try swapping the electronics to see if we can get it working.  If
> >>>>> anyone has an old Western Digital Caviar WD1800 (IDE) drive laying around and
> >>>>> they'd be willing to donate it or sell it for a small sum you'd make a certain
> >>>>> 18 year old music fan VERY happy.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Does it have to be that specific brand and model?
> >>>>
> >>>> I was actually going through some old hard drives last night and still
> >>>> hvae some working ones that you can have (once I wipe them).
> >>>>
> >>>> -- Doug
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