[Ti] Is there a trick to replacing a hard drive?
Jerry Krinock
jerry at ieee.org
Thu Apr 20 11:11:43 PDT 2006
We have a 867 MHz Ti. The 40 GB hard drive was making noises and the system
was freezing. Since we don't use this for much, I bought a 20 GB ATA hard
drive on eBay and replaced it. Everything went together fine, but when I
boot off our Tiger install DVD and open Disk Utility to format the new
drive, it ain't there. It's also not there in System Profiler > ATA.
Did I miss a step? I've checked the connector twice to verify that I did
not offset any of the pins.
It is a Toshiba MK20118GAP, HDD2164. It also says COMPAQ P/N 249493-001.
Did I get a bad hard drive? Is the downsizing from 40 GB to 20 GB possibly
illegal?
Jerry
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