Putting an iBook HDD in a Samsung Netbook N130?

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AllanRawr

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Hello, I have just gotten an iBook G4 12" from my sister, as it was her old laptop. I've taken it, to see if I can salvage the data on the HDD for her. I was wondering if it is possible to put the iBook's HDD inside my Samsung Netbook N130 and boot it normally, so I could just copy the files onto a USB or something. I can't say I've ever really dealt with Apple products before, so I don't know if it'll fit, and if it would run normally or not. I could explore other options if need-be, but if possible would like to just run it from the netbook.
Any advice is appreciated, cheers.
 
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The drive from the Mac will probably be the same size and sata so will probably fit however the Netbook won't boot from it because of the hardware/CPU etc and the Mac filesystem is different too.

If you google around for reading HFS from Windows you should find a download or two. Apple provides a couple of drivers for Windows which bootcamp uses to allow Windows access to the HFS filsesystem. Popping the G4 disk in a cheap caddy might allow you to thus use Windows.

I can't remember off the top of my head if Linux can read it, I'm pretty sure it can. You could make a bootable USB Linux stick (make sure it is one that has a live option like PCLinuxOS) and see if that could read the data with it installed into the netbook.
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The drive from the Mac will probably be the same size and sata so will probably fit however the Netbook won't boot from it because of the hardware/CPU etc and the Mac filesystem is different too.

If you google around for reading HFS from Windows you should find a download or two. Apple provides a couple of drivers for Windows which bootcamp uses to allow Windows access to the HFS filsesystem. Popping the G4 disk in a cheap caddy might allow you to thus use Windows.

I can't remember off the top of my head if Linux can read it, I'm pretty sure it can. You could make a bootable USB Linux stick (make sure it is one that has a live option like PCLinuxOS) and see if that could read the data with it installed into the netbook.
 
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