New harddrive, wouldnt boot

hard drive

hi

can u try this toshiba harddrive via a usb to ide cable to see if any system reconzises the hard disk ?

also can u hear the hard disk spin ?

and are u sure ur powerbook and ibook can accept this drive ?

need to know more specific details !

sorry

p.s try booting up from a hardware test cd if u have one and see what happens if the drive shows or not !

 

unusal

unusual try zapping ur pram hold control kye & option key and p+r all at the same time and start up and let the machine chime 4 times and let go and if no sucess reset-nvram from open firmware control key and option key and o+f key hold at same time when starting up and see if that sorts it !
so osx is installed on the drive right ?

but it just wont boot correct ?

 

Reset the PMU, strange things happen when you reset that. Go to apples website and look up how to do it. Actually I think its... (where did I put that thread they should put as a sticky for these commands) SHIFT+CONTROL+FN+POWER KEY = REST PMU!!!

That may help cause it may adjust the power for the HDD. I dunno.. worth a shot.

 

Just to make sure...

I have a toshiba 10gb with no issues in my WS.

Keep in mind the Wallstreet will only install an OS from a partition which is less than 8gb. The OS has to be installed in that first partition of that HD.

You can clone an OS install to a different partition and then boot from it, but you still have to do the original install within the first 8gb.

Hope this helps....

 

What are the keys for changing the boot mode or going to the screen to choose the boot drive?

Did you format the drive so that it made a Master Boot Record, and partition it and that?

 

Booting with the " option " key ..

 

You know he probably has it right and we're all trying to help him out w/o taking this into consideration. Yeah cause with Mac OS 9, I think my drives were cut in 2, one for the OS 9 partitoin and one for just other things. I don't remember.... If that one seller who I bought my PB from comes in here, let us know.

 

You have to give it a parition type, like HFS+ Extended or that.. I know that much.

 

You need to format it and set the partition type to HFS+ or HFS+ Extended or that. - I'll see if I can find how you do that during the installation. - Run Disk Utility or... whats it called... Disk First Aid, it should be somewhere on the CD.

 

HFS+ and HFS Extended are one and the same
HFS+ is used in OS 8.1 through to today, but in Panther it gained journaling
HFS came before OS 8, aka, Systems 2 through 7
MFS was used in System one

You need to format it with HFS+ or HFS Extended, whatever you can choose. And try two partitions, two 6GB. (It is NOT 8GB but rather 8 GiB, so its around 7.4 GB, and I think that only effects OS X. Anyway, to be safe, make your max size 7 GB)

 

this combination should work....do not give up

you mentioned Panther.. Panther will not install natively on a Wallstreet. You must use Xpostfacto or SonnetX to install Panther.

Jaguar 10.2 is the highest OS officially supported by Apple on a Wallstreet.

YOU should be able to easily install OS9.1 or 9.2 and it must be within the first 8gb (7.5GB) if you do not want to do the math.

 

If I think I know what you are asking, you want MacOS Extended.