closeddoors1559 Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Hello everyone, My Powerbook G3 Lombard Hard drive is slow and makes click sounds, I'm sure it's pretty much dead now . So I'm going to buy a new one. But I don't really know which interface the HD needs to have; some say PATA, some say SATA etc., and I've read something about a maximum HD size of 128GB, which makes it pretty hard to find a new one. Do I need to know more about the Powerbook G3 HD's, or is this all I need to know? I hope someone can clear this up for me. Thanks ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stretch Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Here's what I did when my Lombard HD started the downhill ride. First, I was able to hook up an external SCSI with an HDI-30/SCSI adapter and clone the HD to an external drive. This was more of a concern to me than the drive replacement itself. Once I had the drive cloned and a test boot done from the external drive, I was good to replace the drive. I went to Best Buy and bought a WD Scorpio Blue 250GB PATA hard drive. Yes, 250GB. It was the smallest drive they had. The issue I found is that the Lombard controller will only recognize 128GB max, so I have half of the HD unavailable to this machine. I partitioned it 10GB, 10GB, 108GB. One 10GB is the main system, the other 10GB is a bootable system backup and 108GB all data. It works great. Now at some point down the road where I retire this machine, I have a 250GB HD that I could use in another machine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
closeddoors1559 Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Wow, thanks for your help! Now I know what I need to search for . Btw, I just bought an iBook G3 . It looks and works very nice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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