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Thanks for any advice (besides not trying to do this at home or letting a certified Mac tech do the job next time -)). Also don't recall disconnecting it as part of the instructions.
Does that sound right, or might the whole mechanism not be fitted properly from the reassembly? I didn't need to remove the optical drive to do the HD replacement, and don't recall that any screws I removed/replaced were holding the optical drive. I think the center spindle, head or whatever it is called may be locked as if there were a disc inserted. Unfortunately, this machine is out of warranty, so I'm pretty much on my own for getting this back to working order. I have a Mac Powerbook G4 that has a dead hard drive. The optical drive was empty when I started the disassembly. got a question for anyone who may be in the know on this.
The center area had an obstruction, although the sides seemed clear. But I was physically unable to insert the disc into the slot.
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Next try was to reboot with the OS install DVD in the optical drive.
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Am I right about that, or did I need to start with an OS install DVD in the optical drive? I don't believe there was any step in the upgrade process where I was messing with the display connector. The new HD needed to be formatted and the OS installed, but I expected to see some sort of prompt. When I rebooted, optical drive and hard drive seemed to be making all the rights sounds, but nothing came up on the screen. Felt pretty confident about having followed instructions to the letter (no guessing about replacing screws, no forcing to close it back up, etc.).
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I'm waiting for the next line of MacBooks, and between now and then whenever this may be, Im looking for a replacement hard drive from somewhere like ebay, basically I want to get a cheap replacement as possible. How do you replace or upgrade the hard drive in the PowerBook G4 models Information regarding the type of hard drive used in each PowerBook G4 model is provided on the specs page for the model of interest. Went back to the forums and researched that the problem could be a CABLE from main (mother) board to the Hard Drive. Question: Q: Replacing a Powerbook G4 Hard Drive My Aluminum 17' Powerbook G4 1Ghz has given up the ghost, the hard drive is dead.
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I got mac installation Disk and tried to reinstall OS, my suspicion about the Hard Drive was confirmed when in installation Mac OS would not see a Hard Drive to which install new copy of OS. I looked at the forums and made a assumption that something was wrong with the Hard Drive. :) We switched it OFF and back ON, a grey screen we the apple logo and a spinning (loading) wheel appears and stays on the screen. We got this problem with our Mac Book Pro 15" (mid 2009) one day it went to sleep and it never woke up.