Re: change 3400 hard drive?

2003-01-19 Thread Greg M
> The drive swap isn't tricky. I'f you've changed > drives before, you won't have any trouble. It's under > the palm rest on the left side. Remove the keyboard, > pop out any added RAM for freedom of movement, and , > the trickiest part, release the clips retaining the > palm wrest without brea

Re: change 3400 hard drive?

2003-01-19 Thread Gerald R . Homeyer
>I was thinking of putting a left over hard drive from a Lombard in my >old 3400c. Is there any reason why this would not work? > >Also, I seem to remember reading that it is tricky to change hard >drives in a 3400. I have changed drives in my Lombard and Wallstreet >and in my old Powerbook 10

Re: change 3400 hard drive?

2003-01-19 Thread Sionnach Aisling
The drive should work fine, although, I would recommend reinitializing it and reinstalling a fresh copy of the OS after the switch. There are things specific to the other Powerbook that your 3400 won't have/need and there are things your 3400 will need that the old drive won't have. (Onr thing tha

Re: change 3400 hard drive?

2003-01-19 Thread Gary D. Adams
I wouldn't say it's "tricky"--it's slightly difficult--and that's only in popping the plastics. You might check out this site--it's what I went by when I installed mine: http://home.earthlink.net/~richardinsd/Supersizeyour3400.html Charles Siegel wrote: > I was thinking of putting a left over h

change 3400 hard drive?

2003-01-19 Thread Charles Siegel
I was thinking of putting a left over hard drive from a Lombard in my old 3400c. Is there any reason why this would not work? Also, I seem to remember reading that it is tricky to change hard drives in a 3400. I have changed drives in my Lombard and Wallstreet and in my old Powerbook 100, but