I hope someone can help me - I cant seem to be able to instal my OS on my main hard drive and it takes 30 mins to restart my computer on my second drive.
Backstory - I think i downloaded something bad that set a preference in my main hard drive and could not boot to it at all. I think and am not sure, it was image icons for things like folders and the trash and things. Alls i did was download them to the desktop and view them. I never installed them or so i thought. Then my computer froze and i could not start it up. I put in my OS install disk (10.4) and installed it on my second drive to boot it up. I copied/backedup all my info i wanted from that drive (bare minimum and not the icons). Then i went to erase the hard drive to reinstall and start from scratch.
The Computer I am using is a G4 the MDD. I bought it on ebay a few months ago and had only minor problems with it (it would go to sleep funny and would never keep the time, even when i replaced the battery in it.) It has two hard drives. Both large - First being bout 230 and the other 150. When i bought it it also had an upgraded graphcis card (not that i think that has anything to do with it).
So I tried to erase the First hard drive (in disk utility after updating the OS to its latest version) and it got almost to the end and froze. I tried to erase it again a few times and it does nothing. I tried the first three security options and nothing. I tried to partition it thinking it need this and nothin happened either. I do know if i need a driver for the hard drive or what. I cant restore it (or dont know how) or format it either.
Please if anyone has any suggestion or can help me I dont really wanna take it in but will, I wanna figure it out and learn how to fix this problem.
Backstory - I think i downloaded something bad that set a preference in my main hard drive and could not boot to it at all. I think and am not sure, it was image icons for things like folders and the trash and things. Alls i did was download them to the desktop and view them. I never installed them or so i thought. Then my computer froze and i could not start it up. I put in my OS install disk (10.4) and installed it on my second drive to boot it up. I copied/backedup all my info i wanted from that drive (bare minimum and not the icons). Then i went to erase the hard drive to reinstall and start from scratch.
The Computer I am using is a G4 the MDD. I bought it on ebay a few months ago and had only minor problems with it (it would go to sleep funny and would never keep the time, even when i replaced the battery in it.) It has two hard drives. Both large - First being bout 230 and the other 150. When i bought it it also had an upgraded graphcis card (not that i think that has anything to do with it).
So I tried to erase the First hard drive (in disk utility after updating the OS to its latest version) and it got almost to the end and froze. I tried to erase it again a few times and it does nothing. I tried the first three security options and nothing. I tried to partition it thinking it need this and nothin happened either. I do know if i need a driver for the hard drive or what. I cant restore it (or dont know how) or format it either.
Please if anyone has any suggestion or can help me I dont really wanna take it in but will, I wanna figure it out and learn how to fix this problem.