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Hi,
I bought a G4 iBookin 2004 which unfortunately was stepped on in 2009 - the screen was completely smashed.
I'd now like to extract my photos and music to my G5 Power Mac Tower.
A friend has advised that I may be able to buy a cable like this to take care of the extraction. Please can anyone confirm this? How easy is the extraction process & is there a guide I can follow anywhere?
Thanks in advance.
Ricky
iBook G4 (14-inch Late 2004)
I think it works, just connect like USB external HDD, though it's quite hard to pull out HDD from iBook G4.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iBook+G4+14-Inch+1.42+GHz+Hard+Drive+Replacement/73 1
You may be able to start the iBook G4 into Target Disk Mode so it
could be seen by the other Mac computer, as an external HDD...
•How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode - Apple Support
And then be able to drag items you hope to save, from one hard disk
to a folder in the other computer. Or to some other external device
attached to the host computer.
Or, as suggested, you may be able to extract the physical hard drive
from the tired iBook G4 and perhaps use a Universal USB hard drive
cable kit, these have their own power supply & may work to get info
and files off the bare hard disk drive. If you get an external enclosure
to try & read the HDD from the iBook, if take out, be sure that enclosure
can match up and use the ATA/IDE interface of the older PPC Mac.
Hopefully you can get the content safely from the iBook G4 drive.
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
Transfer Old Hard Drive Contents from iBook
