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    Putting a hard drive in a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ

    I've tried formatting the disks in Mac OS 8 and OS X , OS 8 gives me the same error as OS 9 and OS X complains about "Invalid B-Tree node size". A few people have said that PRAM problems can result in hard disk issues, that's why I ask about replacing it. I've noticed the date and time randomly...
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    Putting a hard drive in a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ

    Is there a PRAM battery I can replace in this model? I lifted the keyboard but I don't see one.
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    Putting a hard drive in a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ

    I bought an Apple OEM'd Fujitsu MH2060AT hard drive off eBay and it has the same exact problem as the rest of the adapters/disks I've tried
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    Putting a hard drive in a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ

    Sounds like my best bet is to get a hard drive with an Apple ROM then. The CF-PCMCIA adapter works but when I did the Norton Utility speed test, the disk speed was half of what it should be
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    Putting a hard drive in a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ

    It seems to see it. Product ID is "Highspeed SD to CF" and the size is correct. No Mac OS partitions even though I partitioned it on the G5
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    Putting a hard drive in a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ

    Hello, I picked up a Wallstreet PDQ without a hard drive. No matter what kind of disk I put it in it, Mac OS 9.2 sees it but won't initialize it. I've tried the following Real 120 GB hard drive IDE-> M.2 adapter with 128gb card IDE -> SD adapter with 32 gb card IDE -> Compact Flash with 1GB...
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