Please help with another ibook HD wipe problem

[UKmacman]

I know there are already several threads with questions on how to wipe an ibook hard drive but this one is slightly different.

I can't seem to boot my computer from the install disc that came with it. I turn off the computer, hold down c and get a folder with a question mark in it. However when the computer starts I can see the disc folders. I open up disc utility and can wipe the drive but is this really wiping it? I thought I had to boot up from the CD?

I ask as I am selling my machine and don't want to think I have wiped something when I have not. I have also been through the same process (from the disc just running in the drive) to install OSX Tiger. But again how do I know if it has cleared all my old settings?

Do I have faulty discs if I cannot re-boot from them. All I want to do is a clean and install!!!

Please help - and fast - I am supposed to be selling this machine in a couple of days

 

[TEG]

Does your iBook have DVD capabilities? Tiger is a DVD and you cannot boot onto it from an iBook with only a CD-ROM.

TEG

 

[UKmacman]

yes it is a DVD rom. Plays the DVD and I can run disc utility from that but is that the way to do it? I thought I had to boot up from the DVD by holding down c?

 

[TEG]

You do, but if that doesn't work, try option.

TEG

 

[UKmacman]

just tried doing it with option key. I ket a screen with 3 things. On the left a refresh symbol, middle the mac osx hard drive and on the right a right arrow. The only thing I can click is the right arrow which then starts up the machine!

Help!!!!

 

[TEG]

Your Tiger Disc is screwed.

TEG

 

[UKmacman]

Great! Any suggestions what to do now then?

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

Do you have another Mac and a Firewire cable?

Does the DVD drive actually work in the ibook? Or have you tried cleaning the Tiger disc? Holding down the option key, you should see your internal hard drive and the Tiger DVD if it can read it.