Boot MacBook off desktop hard drive

[emettsantucci]

I have a 2006 MacBook that the hard drive just died on. I also have an iMac g5. I want to be cheap and not buy a new drive for my laptop or a new computer, so is there a way to boot the laptop off of the desktop drive? That would be really helpful! Thanks

 

[gr8tfly]

I have a 2006 MacBook that the hard drive just died on. I also have an iMac g5. I want to be cheap and not buy a new drive for my laptop or a new computer, so is there a way to boot the laptop off of the desktop drive? That would be really helpful! Thanks

If you're asking about booting using the iMac itself as an external drive (unless I missed something), it will not work because of the difference in processors - PPC vs Intel.

Replacement SATA drives for the MacBook are fairly inexpensive. $42 for 160GB 5400, $55 for 500GB at Amazon.

 

[emettsantucci]

I had the laptop running off of an external FireWire 400 drive that I had. I used the G5 to install Leopard onto it, and I used an Apple Partition Map that is meant to only boot up PPC and that worked really well until that died to. I will just buy a replacement drive, thanks for your help.