Replacing a defective hard drive

[Spike Spiegel]

My hard drive crashed all of a sudden last week, and I ordered a new 160 GB Seagate to replace it. I was able to save my important files to an external disk befre it went completely. I just switched the old drive in the back bay with the new one, leaving it on cable select. When I start up from the Tiger disk however, the new drive doesn't show up in the selection window of the installer. Am I missing something, or is something wrong? Do I have to format the drive somehow, and if so, how do I do that? Thanks.

[eva01]

Boot from the CD and then go to disk utility see if formating it from that works.

If it shows up in disk utility that is

[Sun Baked]

Let me guess a G4 Tower older than the MDD machine ...

Most likely the drive is too big for the old ATA controller Apple was including in the machines, you may want to get a new PCI ATA controller.

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But specifics on the machine might get people to help you pinpoint the problem a little better.

Edit: Like making sure the drive goes on the ATA 100 bus, if it has one.

[yenko]

My hard drive crashed all of a sudden last week, and I ordered a new 160 GB Seagate to replace it. I was able to save my important files to an external disk befre it went completely. I just switched the old drive in the back bay with the new one, leaving it on cable select. When I start up from the Tiger disk however, the new drive doesn't show up in the selection window of the installer. Am I missing something, or is something wrong? Do I have to format the drive somehow, and if so, how do I do that? Thanks.

No shorted pins....no cable select. OS X figures it out. :eek: