PowerMac G5 Hard Drive Installation

Installing an additional 3.5" SATA hard drive into a PowerMac G5 Machine

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Science & Technology

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• PowerMac
• G5
• Install
• OWC
• Macsales
• apple
• Mac
• hard
• drive
• SATA
• serial
• ATA
• macsales.com

[Schmangy]

Can I install a SATA drive in slot B and then clone the drive in slot A to B? The reason I am doing this is to save everything before the drive in slot A (which is 8 years old) fails. I then want to remove the old drive in slot A and replace it with the drive in slot B. I was told I can use software called SuperDuper to do this. BUT, the forums say that I have to this with the new drive outside of the machine using a USB cable. Thank you for your response.

[OWCmacsales]

@Schmangy You should be able to clone with both drives installed internally.

[OWCmacsales]

Yes, both the PowerMac G5 & the Mac Pro use 3.5" SATA hard drives.

[Schmangy]

@OWCmacsales Thank you. It's not recognizing the drive for some reason. I installed a 3.5" SATA into slot B, but Disk Utility is not seeing it.

[Legofan78]

can i use 2TB SATA Hard Disk Drive Kit for Mac Pro on a PowerMac G5 like this?

[aflockofmusic2]

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[manyto27]

thanks ....