[geeks] Swapping hard drives in a G4

[velociraptor]

On 9/5/06, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>
> > I've got two G4 Powerbooks.  They do not have the sam RAM or processor
> > speed.  OS on the first is 10.4.6
> >
> > The LCD backlight on the first has crapped out.  Is it possible to
> > simply plug the hard drive from the one with a broken LCD to the
> > healthy
> >  laptop with a minimum of fuss and bother from the operating system?
>
> Yes.  That should work without any issues.  Note I said "should" only
> because there might be a .kext or something you have to delete or
> re-load.

I think this should "just work" as well.  Any issues that crop up
would be from differences in the built in USB/FW/etc., not CPU and
RAM.

Swapping the HD is pretty painless--I'd probably do that first before
fiddling with the setup assistant...but I like working on hardware.

=Nadine=