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celta - Apr 12, 2005 - 6:40 am

Not having changed a drive since OSX came about I wanted to ask about changing a hard drive in my G4 desktop (first model).

Will OSX disk utility / drivers work with third party drives or do I still need to buy Apple compatable drives?

Thanks

bobw - Apr 12, 2005 - 9:40 am

Hi Chris

Apple's Disk Utility will work with any drive.

Keep in mind that your G4 won't recognize any drive over 128GB. That is, if you bought a 200GB drive, the System will only recognize 128GB of the drive. This is a limitation of the on board IDE controller. Tou use larger drives, you would need to install an ATA/IDE 133 Controller card.


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celta - Apr 12, 2005 - 9:55 am

Thank you very much.