you can boot up holding option and then choose the boot select

I work as a Systems/Network administrator (5 years exp) and have used the freezing method before.

This method works when the drive will detect when plugged in (not a circuit board problem) and the platter still spins. When drives fail under load (say transferring a 2GB file it fails halfway through due to heat) freezing it can work wonders.

Make sure to put it in a ziplock bag and get all the air out to prevent frost when you put it in the freezer.

@kingchris626
mine too, new hard drive but i cant select destination volume because does not show it!
help

As long as you format the drive it will support any drive.

Excellent video! Does IMac G5 support most any SATA Hard Drive? Or are there specific Hard Drives for Macs?

These are discs that came with the computer. If you don’t have them, you might try eBay or Apple themselves.

The disc 1 of two you talked about at the end,,What is that? Im sure my iMac came with some discs but they are missing. I do have the lepord OS 10.5. Is that the same thing of am i up a creek with out the discs?

I am not sure about the ‘freezing’ idea. There are companies out there that can try and retrieve your data, but they are very expensive. Going forward, I highly recommend using an external hard drive and Time Machine. I back up there, save to DVD and even save some things on a second hard drive. You can never back up your stuff enough. Sadly, when we go to look at the things we were smart enough to back up on our own, it’s usually the worthless junk. Time Machine does it for you.

Is there anymore upgrade videos for iMac G5? I want to upgrade mine (I love It :3) I got recently, but not sure how to go about doing it.

can i still save the data on my hard drive? the mac genius told me that my hard drive is dead but i hear you can freeze it to get it to work again. what’s the chance i might be able to save my data?

Unless you got a bad drive, I am not sure what to tell you. It worked flawlessly this way for me twice.

Ok now I got it to work, but it’s not recognizing the new hard drive

I replaced my hard drive with a Western Digital SATA 320 GB. And I did everything you instructed, but I get the apple screen with the spinning gear. And it stays that way.

It would not. Apple complicated the intel version. Search YouTube, I am sure there are some links on here.

I need to replace the super drive on my intel core duo (20′) would this be a the same proceedure?

Thanks for this! This is exactly the iMac I have and this video was very helpful!

Hard Drive Replacement
Seagate 500GB Serial ATA HD/7200/32MB/SATA-3G/SKU: TSD-500ASS SY. Not sure about 3.5″

What size is the HD? 3.5″?

The arrows and stuff were actually done with YouTube. That was before Google, so I don’t know if they still have the tool. to do it. It’s been a while, so I am not sure where in the YouTube editing software it was at. The video itself was made on the Mac.

great job, dude. thanks for taking the time and saving me time! p.s. love the arrows and such… how was that done?

Great video. That looked even easier than replacing a hard drive on an old imac G3. Unfortunately I would have to take my current 20″ into the shop to replace the hard drive. I have seen a video on replacing one on it and it scared me to death on all you had to do to get to the hard drive.

That’s my voice. Can’t change that.

dude ur voice is so deep lol

thanks it really helped me

If no drive shows up, I would guess that it is bad or has some type of formatting issue. I would not know what to do to correct a formatting problem. I replaced mine with a 500GB, as well.