>I am planning on buying one of the MCE harddrives to install in my 2400.
>MCE cautions that it is a job that requires removal of a bazillion screws.
>They won't provide instructions, but will provide jpegs of the installation.
>
>Has anyone done this on their own? I'd like to save the $89 bucks, and I
>have a friend who's done tons of Mac harddrive installations.
>Is this something best left to the experts?
>
>(I'm not worried about backing up the harddrive as I have very little on it
>that can't be put on a zip)
>
>Babbette
I recently bought an Interware G3/320 upgrade from MCE and a 12 GB
Travelstar hard drive from buy.com (used a coupon).
The Interware manual, while in Japanese, had fantastic pictures detailing
the disassembly and reassembly of the PB 2400. It is certainly not for
the faint of heart. There were many screws, ribbon cables attached to the
motherboard, little module thingies that I had to pull off the
motherboard, etc. A very delicate operation. I nearly had a heart attack
when I accidentally stripped a screw (not completely, thank goodness).
The machine survived. After pressing the reset button on the back panel,
I booted from my portable Sony 6x CD-ROM drive, partitioned the drive
into 4 partitions, re-installed Mac OS, and re-installed my applications
and data. Along with my Lucent WaveLan card, this machine rocks! I only
wish my battery lasted longer than 90 minutes.
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