Hard Drive Replacement in Powerbook G4 Aluminium

[Moody Glasgow]

If you are having issues with your drive, back up anything important. now.
If you need to get a new drive, make sure it will work with your system. I would go to a reputable local mac dealer and buy one there. They can probably install it for you too.
Also, 1GB of RAM is not very much these days. You might want to consider buying more RAM, especially if you are doing editing on it.
I would say that you are almost to the point of replacing the whole thing if you can afford it. The speed difference would be huge.

moody glasgow
editing.compositing.design

[Zane Barker]

With those type of errors they some times can be repaired with disk utility (you must boor from your install disk first to run full repair) or if that cannot Disk Warrior Probably can.

A reformat of the drive will fix invalid node structures, it is a type of corruption, and usually not a failing drive (unless it reoccurs after a reformat).

What have you tried to do to fix the issue. Replacing the drive seems a bit premature at this point from what you have described.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Ed Dooley]

Good advice from previuos posts. If you do take it apart to replace, here are a couple of resources:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=111925
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ERjITjOUo

As for the Momentus, Apple has shipped it with some MacBookPros (so I’d say it’s Apple endorsed!). Here are a some tests comparing the 200g and the 160gig to other notebook drives:
https://www.barefeats.com/hard96.html
https://www.barefeats.com/hard90.html
Ed

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[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Hi
Thanks for the reply. I’m about to backup the whole HD using Super Duper. And yes, it’s time for more RAM too. Thanks again.
Maria

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Thanks for your response. I’ll try those options first.
Maria

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Thank you for the helpful advice.
Maria