Powermac g4 tower

[Guitarfreakk89]

Hey i have an old 400 mhz g4 tower and about 5 year ago i installed a 100 gig WD HDD in it now that drive crapped out and to my amazment the original apple HDD is still running.  Now I want to remove the original drive and replace both but the original drive isn't screwed down with any visible screws but it wont budge anybody eles have this problem?

[krissel]

If it is like my Digital Audio tower the drive sled is held in place by ONE screw near the front of the drive. It may be hiding under the IDE cable connection. Remove that cable and the power plug and you should see the screw.

It is not easy to get a phillips head down in there and in my case the screw had been stripped by the previous owner so I had to drill it out.
I needed to use all sleds for three drives so I ended up 'borrowing' a screw from another unit.

Once the screw is out, the sled pulls forward a little and then tilt it up since it has two little flaps in the rear that slide under metal ridges.

[Parker]

search for a repair manual
i can't find one
but maybe i'm just really tired and too lazy to look for one hard
i'll look tomorrow

[kelly]

Is it like the Quicksilver?

http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/html/g4...ve-cip.mov.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75314

And a belated Happy Birthday Lou!

[krissel]

Those videos are the same for all G4 towers and also the G3. In fact the sleds are interchangeable between the two.

If you have the newer hard drive on the piggyback sled above the original drive that may be why you don't see the screw. Take all the cables off and it will be visible. The top drive is attached to the double sled with side screws rather than to the bottom (as with the lower original drive and the single sleds).

[kimmer]

How weird. I just searched for this earlier for Sneakers cuz we couldn't figure it out.

kimmer - from the Twilight Zone