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iBook won't recognize new hardrive.I just put a new drive and cable in my ibook and now it won’t always recognize the startup disk. It will boot up fine about one out of every 10-20 times. Otherwise, I’ll get the folder/question mark bit. When it can’t find the HD and I boot from the install disk, the drive won’t show up in Disk Utility or System Profiler. The new cable and drive are identical to the ones they replaced (80 gig Hitachi). It has been running great off of an external drive for three days now, but I move around a lot and need the portability back. I’ve already torn back into it twice to double check the connections and they seem okay. Am I missing something? What are the odds that the new cable is no good? I really need some help here. About ShmandyShmiloshmakis |
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you have three possibilities:
1) you have a DOA hard drive
2) you have a bad cable
3) you damaged the logic board
While I would say I would rate the likelihoods in that order, I’d start by replacing the cable.
Thanks. I think you’re right. The guy who sold me the cable REALLY wanted me to let him do the repair. I wonder if he gave me an old cable so I could let him fix it when it didn’t work. That’s pretty shady, but who knows?
I’m gonna start looking around for a new cable and go from there. Thanks again.
I have the same problem. As I was in the computer I broke the power button socket off the logic board, but I managed to reattach it using a steady hand and electrically conductive epoxy. I have no reason to believe that any other part of the logic board was damaged. Yet, I still can not get the new internal hard drive to show up in system profiler or Disk Utility while booting off of an install CD or off of another external hard drive. It just doesn’t work.
Specs:
iBook G4 14” 1.42 GHz
512 MB RAM
old hard drive: 60 GB Toshiba
new hard drive: 120 GB Western Digital
Any ideas?
I ran into the same problem. I spent about 2 hours taking my iBook apart replacing the stock 20GB to a 60GB 7200. I put in my 10.3 and it wouldn’t let me install it. I’m not one to become angry easily, but after that effort and all the waiting on the parts, I was PEEVED!
Just so happens, I had a 10.1.2 disk hiding in my CD book from an old iMac I used to have. I put that in and “YESSSSSS!!!” It worked. After that, I put my 10.3 back in and it let me upgrade, and it’s installing as I type this. I’ll probably try putting Tiger on later on this week, or maybe after 10.3 is finished.
So if you have any old software still, don’t throw it away. You never know when it might come in handy.
I’ve had a lot of apple computers and really only came across that with a much older laptop i just got a new macbook and it works great with an external drive.
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