iBook 600 HD=slow click of death
Well...it's apparently time for a new drive for my wife's icebook. I've tried erasing the drive and installing the OS...but it will not boot after install. I've pretty convincded the drive is ****ed after she happened to drop it a few days ago. (ummm...yeah).
Quick question: I'm looking at several drives for a do-it-yourself install. Can I use pretty much any IDE 2.5" notebook drive? I'm looking at a few now, both used and new.
Thanks....
Quick question: I'm looking at several drives for a do-it-yourself install. Can I use pretty much any IDE 2.5" notebook drive? I'm looking at a few now, both used and new.
Thanks....
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WRT the iBook HD, have you tried the firewire target mode to see if the disk still works? You will need another Mac with a 6-to-6 pin Firewire cable.
An excellent drive would be one of the 5400 RPM ones available, but they are quite expensive. Hitachi has good laptop drives.
While you're at it, you can upgrade her CD-ROM, too. Toshiba even makes a DVD-R/W (SD-R6012?) that fits. Of course, a G3 600MHz probably shouldn't be burning DVDs.
I installed a Toshiba SD-R2412 the last time I replaced the hard drive on my iBook. It's a pain. Be very meticulous. Here's a helpful link for iBook disassembly:
http://www.yourmaui.com/ibook.html
diskutil info disk0
Look for the line that says, SMART status. If it doesn't say "verified" after that, than you do indeed have a hardware problem. But if she did drop it...I'm guessing the drive may have gone south. Good luck!