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iMac G4 Hard Drive Upgrade Problems

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Macintoshgeek

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May 24, 2007
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I just tried replacing the hard drive in my aunt's old iMac G4. Before the Mac Os X installation disc couldn't find a hard drive to install on. So I just replaced the Hard Drive today with a 80 GB seagate hard drive.

Now, the same thing happens and Mac OS X can't install. I went back and checked as much as I could. I didn't want to actually take out the hard drive again and see if it is connected until I got some answers on here.

I hear the Hard drive running, at least I'm pretty sure I'm hearing it and not the disc drive. But it still won't show up.

Is it simply just a hardware problem, or what? Or else is it because I think I am using just a mac os x upgrade disc because I believe the machine originally had Mac OS 9 on it. Do I have to get my hands on a copy of the iMac's mac os 9 restore discs?

Any help would be great.
 
Sorry for my lack of knowledge in this area. How could I run disk utility if the computer can't run an OS?

Also, I am not entirely sure what Mac OS X I am putting on or what disk is even in. I am pretty sure it is 10.0 because it is just a blue x, but I'm not sure. She gave it to me as is and I have found no way to eject the disc because I don't have a keyboard with an eject button on it.

I also am guessing that the Mac OS X cd is one of many, so even if I could install it I couldn't do it all. I was going to worry about that after the upgrade, but the hard drive won't even show up as a volume.
 
Related problem - solution not seen here already

Hi folks - new to this forum.

I have a g4 laptop - powerbook (titanium, predecessor to the MacBook Pro). I have some ibookg4 startup disks from another machine, but not the 'official' disks for the powerbook.

Had to install a new hard drive (or someone did it for me, to be accurate).

Try the install CD disk but it cannot see the hard drive to make the installation. I can find the hard drive by firing up the laptop in target mode. I've used the utilities on another computer (macbook pro) to make sure the disk is properly formatted - no problem, and it checks out as healthy.

But I still cannot install the system (10.4).

So - given that 10.6.8 on my pro won't run on the ppc chipset (that right?) I'd be happy to get 10.4 to run. (I don't have 10.5 disks - but they would work?)

Problem is - how to get the install disks to install. Or is it simply that they are too machine specific? Do I have to burn new edited files onto CDs? ;-( or is the simple answer to buy some g4 install disks? But could I be sure they'd work?

Thanks
 
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