Putting G4 hard drive in external case
jimyson wrote:So I dropped my Powerbook G4 about a month ago and my lcd is all messed up, won't get picture out of it and the DVI won't send a picture either. Brought it into the Apple store and they said at least $1200 to repair...
So I did the right thing in my mind and bought a 15" MBP in its place.
What I would like to do now is take out the hard drive and put it in an external case so I can still use the 80 GB drive that was in it and still works fine. Ant recommendations on where to get the case and such to do this? Not too sure what to get either so help is appreciated.
I believe that it is an IDE drive. It will definitely be a 2.5" laptop drive. Here are bunch of external enclosures for 2.5" IDE drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010090092+1053807124+1054107130&name=IDE. I have had good success with MacAlley enclosures. I would definitely recommed going with a Firewire enclosure as USB 2.0 bus powered drives usually require 2 USB ports to get enough power. There also this one from OWC: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MOTGFW400/.So I did the right thing in my mind and bought a 15" MBP in its place.
What I would like to do now is take out the hard drive and put it in an external case so I can still use the 80 GB drive that was in it and still works fine. Ant recommendations on where to get the case and such to do this? Not too sure what to get either so help is appreciated.