PowerBook G4 Titanium Mercury Hard Drive Replacement

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PowerBook G4 Titanium Mercury Hard Drive Replacement

Schwierigkeitsgrad

Easy

Schritte

9

Zeitaufwand

Keine Schätzung

Einleitung

You can install hard drives up to 12.5mm thick.

    • Turn the G4 over.

    • Remove the eight Phillips screws from the lower case.

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    • Using your thumbs, slide the lower case away from you.

    • The lower case may stick in the front on a tab just above the center of the DVD drive. Be careful as you work the case off, or you may break the thin strip of plastic just above the drive.

    • Lift the lower case off.

    Please do steps 7 and 8 before you do 5 and 6, because opening the lid without the bottom plate screwed in place easily breaks the plastic around the powerbook as it is pretty fragile after 20+ years. Mine broke even further as it already hat started an to get the bottom top screws back on I had to flip open the display, beg for it not to fall off and let it hang over my table, so the stress from the hinges would be released. It all fit back together, but is broken more than before, changing the PRAM battery (it’s under the dvd drive) went well and the laptop finally turned on again :)

    Jonathan Voß -

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    • Your laptop should look approximately like this.

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    • Disconnect the hard drive ribbon from the logic board using a spudger or the tip of your finger.

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    • To free the hard drive, remove the two T8 Torx screws from the right wall of the battery housing.

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    • Remove the hard drive by gently grasping the orange ribbon cable and lifting the left edge up and out of the computer.

    • There are four rubber bumpers that fit over the hard drive screws. Ensure that these bumpers come out when you remove the hard drive.

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    • Your laptop should look approximately like this.

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    • Remove the two black plastic bumpers and two T8 Torx screws from the side of the hard drive.

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    • Grasp the orange ribbon cable and disconnect it from the hard drive. If the connector is tight, gently rock it from side to side.

    • Be sure to pull evenly on both sides as uneven force may damage the hard drive pins and render your data inaccessible.

    • If you are installing a new hard drive, we have an OS X install guide to get you up and running.

Abschluss

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

Tinte & Feder

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I am old 85 and recovering from a stroke my apple titanium lap top was working when I had my stroke but was unplugged from the mains for months daughter moved it from my study to make way for hospital bed. Now trying to look at photos etc it is completely dead! Just a black screen no sounds at all. Any one advice a simple thing I could try. Old but I love it have a iPad prw no Few years old but cannot remember exactly since my memory damaged. Any advice to help recover my old friend welcome. It looks like new as cared for it .thanks in advance Jeanette

Jeanette Howard-Leighton -

Jeanette, you have to disconnect the small batteries from the PMU unit. Then you have to plug in your power supply and reconnect the small batteries to the PMU unit.

Good luck

Harald Mohr

Harald Mohr -