A numptie at work has a Mac with a duff hard drive.

They didn't know which kind of mac it was, so I asked the deeply probing techie question - "Is it see through blue?" - "No - it's purple" was the answer

So this appears to be an iMac of about 4 years vintage.
Anyway - these are IDE aren't they - so will any IDE disk do?
Can I just bung in whatever the cheapest, smallest disk is on Dabs?
Also are they a pain to work on / get the case open?
Used to do macs years ago so I'm OK on re-installing the OS etc..

Cheers

FJ.

[Edited by father_jack - 6/21/2002 9:57:11 AM]

 

I'm pretty sure they're IDE. 6gb IIRC.

Reasonably simple to open up, the trick is to find all the secret ways that Apple have invented to keep it all together - fiendishly clever designers Then remember how it came apart when putting it together again

 

last time I worked on macs ( a few years back ) they all used torx drivers to un-screw the cases. I think that the G4 towers just un-clip apart, but the i-mac's (old and new) will probally need a torx..

 

The iMacs are an ar$e to get apart...
There aren't many screws to undo, there are a couple in the rear flap underneath and two by the feet..
Don't try and get the front section off that doesn't help you.
It is the base bit that comes away (if its the same design as the blue ones...) Then you unscrew the mesh, quite a few screw there.
Mind you dont touch the tube etc...

 

Sod it - they can take it back to the toy shop from whence it came

Cheers for saving my weekend

FJ