Jon,
Once you format the drive in the mac format, your fine. At this
point it is like you starting with a new drive.
MIke
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On Feb 15, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Jon Forrest wrote:
> I have a Powerbook G4 Titanium 500Mhz and an
> IBM Thinkpad. Both work fine but for various reasons
> I want to swap their harddrives.
>
> I opened the Powerbook to take out its harddrive (some
> kind of IBM disk) but I noticed some writing on the disk
> that mentioned Apple firmware. This got me worried.
> I know that harddrives can be exchanged between desktop
> Macs and PCs (I've done it) but can notebook drives
> be exchanged between Mac notebooks and PCs?
> (Obviously reformatting and reinstallation are required also).
> Can someone point me to a definitive reference on this?
>
> Thanks
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> Jon Forrest
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> Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept.
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