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Need hard drive for G4 Quicksilver 733 - 2008/11/10 17:33Hello
My internal drive finally died in my G4 Quicksilver 733. I found a spare 160gb IDE the other day - does anyone know if that will work? Thanks!
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Michael B. in Cincinnati
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Re:Need hard drive for G4 Quicksilver 733 - 2008/11/11 08:57If it's IDE, it should work fine. Physically install it, load OSX, and go.
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Re:Need hard drive for G4 Quicksilver 733 - 2008/11/11 19:24Your QS 733 is only going to recognize 128GB of the 160GB hard drive when you format it for the Mac OS, but it will work fine otherwise.
The 2002 QS 800MHz was the first PowerMac G4 with the IDE controller for large drive support. Your G4 unfortunately did not.
You can buy an app called Hi-Cap from Intech that will allow you to use the entire 160GB but there is a downside. You cannot use hard drive utilities to do any repair work, etc... with the Hi-Cap driver.
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mandrax
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Re:Need hard drive for G4 Quicksilver 733 - 2008/11/12 08:52thanks! I really appreciate your suggestions!
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krowmagnum
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Re:Need hard drive for G4 Quicksilver 733 - 2008/11/14 14:54Another option for 128GB+ drives in older G3's and G4's is an app from GeeThree called Overdrive:
I noticed GeeThree now has an option for this problem. GeeThree also wrote the Leopard Assist application I mentioned in your post about running Leopard on a 733MHz G4.
Overdrive is still in Beta form so you should be cautious using it and make sure you keep everything backed up in case something bad happens.
Personally, I would skip any 3rd party options and just format the drive using Apple's Disk Utility.
First and foremost to avoid problems.
Secondly because you won't loose that much space anyway. Your 160GB drive is not really 160GB. The manufacturers calculate 1GB as 1000MB's and your Mac calculates 1GB as 1024MB's which is the accurate number.
By the time you deduct the manufacturers creative math and formatting you will only loose about 20GB+/- in a 160GB drive. It's not worth the potential negatives.
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