Q: Do I need a new Hard Drive?
Last week my PowerBook G4 froze. I tried to reboot, with no success, I just kept getting a grey screen, and that's it. The machine did boot from the install disc, and I did run disc utility, which gave me a message of bad segments, that it could not repair. I booted from the Tech Tool Pro disc, run and perform a diagnostic, and able to, I assume, repair, or reroute, around the bad segments in the hard drive, and was able to get the machine back up and running.
The same thing happen again yesterday, but I had no sucess trying the above 2 options, so I inserted the OS X install disc, and ran disc utility, erased the hard drive, and tried to reinstal the OS. It looked like it was working, but it would get to about the 1/2 way point, then I got a message somewhere along the lines of the operation failed and I needed to restart? I tried again, and once again it gets to the 1/2 way point and nothing. Since I'm not to savy with hardware issues, I'm thinking that the hard drive is pootched, and I need to replace it. Has anyone experienced this, and am I heading in the right direction on replacing the drive?
I know the original drive is a 100GB ata, i'm assuming a PATA-66, so would it make a difference if i replaced it with a PATA-100? are the connections the same?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Powerbook G4 17", Mac OS X (10.4.11), 2GB ram
Posted on Oct 27, 2011 3:06 PM
Yes ATA-100 is fine, both would work. Given the choice, I would want the ATA-100 (faster capability).
Posted on Oct 29, 2011 11:38 AM