[Ti] Harddisk switch

[Matt Kibildis]

My advice is to use SuperDuper to clone the disk to the new HD, insert
it, and voila!

On 6/4/09, David Delmonte <ddelmonte at mac.com> wrote:
> If you look at http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/search/titanium+powerbook.
> Find you particular model. You can disassemble the PB yourself. It's
> not hard with some simple tools. Then you compare your disk drives.
> They should -- I believe -- be ATA/IDE drives. I'm not sure about that.
>
> Take out the old one and save it.
>
> You'll need a cheap Firewire enclosure for that drive. MacSales.com
> has them. When you get the enclosure, install the old drive there.
>
> You can install the PC drive in the TiBook if the interface is the same.
>
> Then you connect your new external HD (your old disk), and boot from
> this new external drive.
>
> You must reformat the PC disk as a mac volume. Then you must install
> your OS on it.
>
> Finally, you run Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant to copy
> everything properly from the old drive to the new one.
>
> You should then be able to boot from the internal drive, Check the
> permissions, and perform all software updates. Recheck permissions.
>
> One final note, you are going to a lot of trouble. Is your new drive
> big enough (capacity) to be worth it?
>
> David
> On May 20, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Arne Hulstein wrote:
>
>> Can I put a harddisk that used to live in a pc laptop in my tibook
>> to replace its dead harddisk? And how do I get MacOS 10.4 back on it
>> as it came installed with it and I have no cd's around here... Are
>> there tibook downloads?
>>
>> Arne
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