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6. September 2006 @ 11:28 |
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I have a PwerMac G4 and I bought last year but I have a little space left on my hard drive. I wonder if I change the hard drive does it matter if it's used to be in a Windows system? I formatted the hard drive before taking it out. Also how do you load on a Mac operating system. I'm new to the Mac. Thanks to anybody that knows how!!!
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6. September 2006 @ 15:06 |
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You can use the recovery disk that came with the machine to do a clean install. Or you can just go down and pick up a copy of Tiger 10.4.
You may need to reformat the HDD you're taking out of the PowerMac into the PC, do that once on the PC.
I'm just not getting how you're saying that you are new to Macs but yet you've had a PowerMac from last year?
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6. September 2006 @ 15:39 |
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He wants to put a pc hdd on mac, not viceversa
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6. September 2006 @ 15:39 |
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He wants to put a pc hdd on mac, not viceversa
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6. September 2006 @ 16:05 |
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Doesn't matter. As long as the HDD is no bigger than 120GB. That machine won't read anything bigger 128GB. It also needs to be ATA HDD.
Use the recovery disks to do a clean install on the machine or go down and pick up Tiger. Your PowerMac should be fine.
Pop in the drive, start up from the disks, and do the clean install on the PowerMac. It's just like when you pick up a new one. Just because it came from a PC doesn't mean anything.
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6. September 2006 @ 19:55 |
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Yeah, i'm new yo the mac because i only used it for the internet and classes that i take, i never really did anything else with the mac for online things.
Ok, i use the recovery disk to cleanup the mac, right? Then when i put the new hdd in is it like install a os on a pc or is it different?
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6. September 2006 @ 23:00 |
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You put in the HDD. Pop in the disk. I believe it is the "C" key you hold down. It will boot off the disk. You then do a "Clean Install".
The cd itself should tell you what key it is. The install on Mac OSX is much easier than it is on the PC. It's pretty easy to do.
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7. September 2006 @ 10:04 |
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Ok, thanks for the help!!!
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swedento
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11. December 2006 @ 14:08 |
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COME ON GUYS DO YOU THINK A PC OS WILL WORK ON A MAC NO NO NO
PC HARD DRIVE WILL NOT WORK ON A MAC AND MAC HARD DRIVE NOT ON A PC WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF I BOOT MY MAC WITH WINDOW XP OS F,,,K ALL AND DONT EVEN TRY IT YOU WILL BE THE TURKY OF THE YEAR
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13. December 2006 @ 14:50 |
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swedento,
Chill out and lay off the all caps.
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