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As with everything I do, nothing is ever as easy as it seems. My 3 year old PowerBook keeps getting close to running out of space so I figured I would buy a larger hard drive and replace it myself. I purchased a Seagate 5400.3 160GB notebook hard drive from NewEgg.com. Upon checking out, they recommended a USB drive carrier so the drive I got could be used externally. Since I needed to buy one of them for my internal drive when it becomes my external drive, I figured I would take advantage of the extra $10 discount and bought the recommended carrier.

Everything showed up at the house today and I used Carbon Copy Cloner to image my system drive to the larger external drive. I then wanted to test out the clone to make sure it worked correctly and could not get my PowerBook to boot from it. Ends up I missed a very important piece of information; OS X will not boot to a USB drive from a G4 processor. So it looks like I need to find a firewire enclosure for the new disk.

The second piece of the story is that you need a very small torx (t6) to get the PowerBook apart and I couldn’t find that screwdriver to save my life tonight. The entire family ripped the house apart and we never found it. Tomorrow I will pick up the firewire enclosure and the torx piece and give this a shot again.

Hopefully I will be able to post from my PowerBook and its new, much larger hard drive tomorrow night.

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