Should I be able to mount the hard drive from my dead powerbook using the guts of an old ipod?

I don't know if you can mount from an iPod, but you can use this adapter cord sold thru Other World Computing (macsales. Com) to access the files on any hard drive (that's working) without the need for an external hard drive case. Boot from a working computer.

Newer Tech Drive adapter Kit , $28 - Works w/ Macs & Windows PCs eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technolo... From the MacSales Website: quote "The NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter makes it easy to transfer data between the old and new drives as well as give the old drive a second life as an external storage solution. It's a complete solution that allows any 2.5", 3.5", or 5.25" hard drive or optical drive* with any standard IDE/ATA/ATAPI 40 pin or SATA interface to be connected via USB to any USB equipped computer for file transfer, backing-up and storing file archives, and accessing data on stored backup drives with Plug & Play ease. The connection status LEDs provide easy confirmation of a proper connection between a USB 1.1/2.0 equipped computer and an IDE/ATA or SATA drive." end of quote Good for rescuing data from a computer that has died (providing it wasn't the hard drive that crashed.

) Photos and instructions on the web site. I just bought one! Pull the hard drive from the dead powerbook, hook up the cable and mount to a working Mac or PC.

Follow the advice of the other posters. There are many ways to do this, from external cases like those from Macally, which are rock solid. macally.com/EN/Product/Homes.asp You can also look at Universal Drive Adapters, which are more of a techies tool, but wonderful to have around.

eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technolo... Your original question as to using an iPod, no, it will not work. The drive can be made to work, but you need to first get an OS on it. And not Mac OS X, but the iPod OS.

This can be a little tricky, and needs a trip into the command line to load the iPod OS onto it properly. Even then, once loaded, you need to configure it in iTunes to enable drive usage. By the time you did all this, you will have lost all your data on the drive.

Get an external case, or the UDA.

That assumes that the drives have compatible connectors or adapted accordingly (which might or might not work with an iPod). You'd want a SATA drive to a SATA iPod, or IDE to IDE, or SCSI to SCSI. There's no reason a drive of the same type should not mount with compatible hardware.

This works between Macs and PCs (with some data conversion, but it mounts or recognizes the hardward), between laptops and desktops, servers and desktops, etc. Do make sure if it's an IDE drive that it is set properly for mastering on the IDE bus. It might expect to be Cable Select or Master, and that can make it appear not to mount until you change the jumper. Depending on the size of the drive and age of the iPod, it's possible the drive wil not display its entire contents.

I don't know the maximum addressable data volume in every generation or version of iPod, but Apple may have purposefully or to save costs used a lower bit memory controller. This would allow it to only address up to a certain size of data. Good luck, I'd be curious how it comes out if you comment as a follow-up.

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