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I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 17" M9689LL/A, A1107 to repair. From past experience with the device I know the HDD in it has gone and ideally needs replacing. I keep hearing reports from people that it will only accept certain makes and models of HDD. I was wondering if anybody knew if there was any truth behind these rumours, or if I could put any 2.5" IDE HDD in to it.

You can put in any IDE/PATA HDD inside. There would be no reason why it wouldn’t work. Here are some IDE 2.5" drives to pick from