<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 27 May 2009, at 10:18, Arne Hulstein wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Could anyone answer this? Simon?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Arne Hulstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arne.hulstein@gmail.com">arne.hulstein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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?<div> <br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Arne</div> </font></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>If the disk from the PC has the right form factor (9.5 mm, 2.5") and connection (IDE) then you can use it.</div><div>It sounds as though you do not have a backup of your dead disk, that is more than unfortunate.</div><div>So you have to start again. Without the disks and without a backup, it is not easy.</div><div>MacOS 10.4 was not around at the time that Ti-books were sold.</div><div>If I remember correctly, OS X came out around the time that I received my first Ti-book (March 2001), but was definitely not installed on delivery.</div><div>So even if I could find my original Ti-disks, I am sure they would have been OS 9.2.</div><div>Better to bite the bullet, move to Leopard, buy an external disk, and use TimeMachine.</div><div><br></div><div>regards, Trevor</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>