Replaced Internal HDD Formatting

[dobbler]

Hi,

I just had a hard drive die in my old 20" G5 iMac 2.0GHz PPC (Pre iSight) and I've just installed another 250Gb SATA drive and booted to the install disc.

The install is now looking for the destination volume to install OSX but nothing is showing up. I presume I have to format the drive first. I'm very familiar with that procedure on a PC but in all my years of using macs I've never had to do it!

If anyone could shed some light on it for me it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

 

[dobbler]

Found it..

Ok, I found the disk utility on the start up disk.. Totally missed the top bar.. Duh..

So, now I'm wondering what the best format is, Mac OS Extended Journaled or what?

Anyone have any experience with this?

Cheers,

Rob.

 

[Neil321]

Ok, I found the disk utility on the start up disk.. Totally missed the top bar.. Duh..

So, now I'm wondering what the best format is, Mac OS Extended Journaled or what?

Anyone have any experience with this?

Cheers,

Rob.

Yep Mac OS Extended journaled ( HFS+ )

 

[Consultant]

You also need to click on the drive, go to partition, option, and choose a partition scheme (for imac it's not windows, not fat).