From what I understand about USB, the computer activly searches for USB devices, and when it hits one, the USB device returns a little data which tells the computer what driver to …

Sounds like you'd have to hack the drivers. Yech.

This may or may not be the best thread for this question, so my early apologies. I've got an iMac revB, & im looking for more HD space. (4gb doesn't cut it). What's the most…

Popular topic, I haven't actually done it myself but this what I've heard: 40 Gig Drive: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Forum5/HTML/000764.html there's a list somewhere of co…

gee... that description on installing the internal looks like a challenge. maybe one of these days.... how fast does your external run, disectamac? Is it good enough to run prog…

One important thing to remember is the sloooooow transfer speed of USB - only 1.5 MB/sec maximum, assuming you have no other constant signals through that port. In contrast, the i…

My external is a Lacie which I've had for quite some time now. I'm sure there are better ones than the one I have. At any rate, I store most of my MP3 and video on it. As far as…

I'd seriously just get an internal harddrive and switch them. They are LOADS cheaper (a 40 gig hard drive is only 300 bucks), a CRAPLOAD faster (someone said 33megs a second I th…

Ya, I'm leaning toward the internal option. I was searching through the CompUSA product inventory and found a nice Maxtor 40 gig 7200 rpm for $200!!! There's no way an external c…

Would a FireWire hard drive be good for an iMac DV SE? Would it actually transfer at 50 megabytes/sec?

yes, a fan-less iMac would have a serious problem with a 7200 rpm drive. those things run significantly hotter than the 5400 rpm ones however, as long as you buy a 5400 rpm ide/at…

As long as you're replacing your internal hard drive, you could consider buying an external USB case for your factory hard drive. That would also make it a lot easier to transfer y…

internal is good... The USB thing imght be a neat idea. I'd try that. Also... I have a 7200 RPM drive in my 1 gen iMac, adn nothing has gotten hotter (CD Rom is…

Has anyone seen any external enclosures with a firewire hookup? I want to expand my SE hard drive space, but the firewire drives out there are still too pricey.

ClubMac makes it's own external hard drives at an extremely low price. 20 Gig External Firewire search for others here: ClubMac Home Page --------------------------------------…

has anyone seen any other installation instructions (for a 1st gen iMac) other than the one at "theimac.com"? The ones there are a bit complicated and the pictures are somewhat sm…

I think there may be instuctions on www.imac2day.com dunno though...

I upgraded to a Maxtor 13.6GB and the iMac (bondi A) won't boot from it. I find out later that Maxtor made some drives that won't boot Macs. They format fine and allow file transf…

I just upgraded my iMac DV to a 30 Gb Maxtor, 7200 rpm. I'm going to monitor the temp over the next few days to see if there's any difference. To transfer the files I just took t…

I'm looking forward to getting out of school and finally having some time to pop my mac open for the first time, take a look inside, and install the new hard drive. I read some re…

I don't know about the earlier iMacs, but my DV model was a snap to swap the HD on. There are detailed instructions from iMac2Day's website which I followed, but I skipped everyth…

I'm not worried about the temperature, considering that I have a fan. I must admit, I've never completely installed a hard drive on my own before. I would assume that the master …

The master/slave arrangement works like this: There can be a maximum of 2 devices on one IDE ribon cable. New drives come with instructions on how to configure them to either mas…

It is possible to have two hard disks at the same time as the cd rom drive in Rev A-D iMacs because the original HD and CDROM are on different IDE busses. Each IDE bus can have two…

what about temporarily connecting a second hard drive - just to transfer the files - while the imac is disassembled? Is that a bad idea, considering that all of the parts would be…