<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">One can also buy a SATA card and a case and use it as an external drive.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Paul Moortgat</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 21 Jun 2005, at 04:21, Tim Collier wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I took the 160 gig HD out of my G5 iMac and replaced it with a 250 gig.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>What to do with the old one......I purchased an SATA card and plugged it into my wife's dual 1 gig G4.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It has definitely made an improvement.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tim</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Peter wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">A friend is upgrading the HD on his G5<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>and has offered my the old SATA drive<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>for my G4. Meantime, he has given me a patch lead (which he says is connected to a power supply) with a SATA drive connection. He assures me it should be plug and play but, I'm not so sure. Any advice?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[System- macintosh G4 Digital Audio; OSX 10.4.1; 1GHz; 896 Mb SDRAM]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Peter</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The box said "Windows '98 or better", so I bought a macintosh.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>