If you have access to an external drive case and another computer you can format the drive with disk utility and partition the drive into multiple 120 gig partitions. They will all be recognized by the cube when you install the drive On 1/8/10 4:45 PM, "Jan Georgen" <jwgeorgen at mac.com> wrote: > Congratulations! And if that silly old 1.5GHz processor gets in your way, I > can take it off of your hands > > You can access the remainder of the space on your hard drive with Intech's HD > Speedtools via > > http://eshop.macsales.com/Specials/cube_owner.cfm > > (scroll down a bit). All will be good. > > Jan Georgen > > On Jan 8, 2010, at 3:29 PM, liza bear wrote: > >> A friend is giving me a Cube with a 1.5GB CPU but he is removing the hard >> drive. I therefore have to buy a new hard drive for this machine. I have two >> questions: >> 1/ Is it safe to install a 160GB internal drive in the Cube? I mean, it won't >> crash the machine? >> 2/ I've seen some on E-Bay made by Hitachi and other, non-Apple companies. Is >> that advisable? >> >> PS My old Cube (1999, 450 MhZ CPU) has an 80GB hard drive >> >> Thank you. >> Liza > > Jan Georgen > jwgeorgen at mac.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cube mailing list > Cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/cube/attachments/20100108/33866332/attachment-0001.htm>