iMac G4 Upgrade ( Snowball ) Part 2: Replacing the iMac hard drive

Visit MacUsersGuide.com Mac Help Desk to get answers for more macintosh troubleshooting questions. http://www.macusersguide.com/help-desk/. The thing that you are mostly likely to get the most benefit from replacing is possibly the most inaccessible part of an iMac. Today's video tip focuses on putting an iMac G4 back together again after you replaces the hard drive executed by Carl Berkeley from Mac Users Guide. Berkeley admits that getting at the hard drives in these types of iMacs is a bit complicated but doable. He shows you how to get it done with just a few simple steps.

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[BrianMWrong]

Can i install any hard drive into my imac g4? thanks.

[MacUsersGuide]

Brian,

Officially, this model does not support hard drives larger than 128 GB. However, third-party sites have reported that this system will support hard drives larger than 128 GB, when running Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

An Ultra ATA/100 hard drive is backwards compatible with the Ultra ATA/66 originally found in this iMac.

Best,

Carl

[michaelreina2007]

I noticed you didn't apply the heat sink compound...isn't that necessary?

[honam1021]

Can I use an ATA/133 hard drive?

[TheTechy2]

@bronxvirus ummmmmm bootcamp? parallel? theres another program only compatible with snow leapord



[bronxvirus]

I have the same computer, is there anyway to put windows on it?

[audioslaverockband]

i hope you can help me with my IMac G4 screen icon problem when i start it an icon show with a question mark i push alt option i enter my password but then i can't access my mac at all i have to restart and do it again do you now what the problem might be

[redwolf4k]

I am not sure if you mentioned this in the video...I watched it and don't recall you mentioning the following: When you disasemble the unti, you actuall break two thermal paste spots, that are connected to the CPU's heat pipes. The inside shell of the imac's dome is actually the cpu's heatsink. Thermal paste must be re-applied to the mating points before putting the bottom back on the unit. Failure to do this will increase cpu temps greatly, and could cause failure.

[BandJsRides]

I've been trying to install a working 40 Gig hard drive out of a PC and into my iMac G4 17" 1GHZ, but all it does is stick at the boot screen, I have my Os X 10.4 disc installed, and restarted it while holding the C key but nothing happens. I've tried other Hard Drives out of PC's but can't even get to the os x menu to try and reformat them. Any ideas?

[BrianMWrong]

Thank you, and awesome video.