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Re: [PLUG] Old hard drive laying around?
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Amul:
Here is the label of the hard drive: http://www.lucii.com/old_drive.jpg
If I can find another WD1800JB-00DUA0 drive I would be overjoyed as that would
be a perfect match. The closest match I have seen is a 50DUA0 on eBay.
Thanks,
Eric
On 07/17/2010 08:00 PM, Amul Shah wrote:
> 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
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/milanzfanclub
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> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:41 -0400, "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> Amul:
>
> 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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