Hey,
last night i received a phone call from my granddad. saying his G3 iMac was flashing a ? mark at him and a smily face, so i told him to hold down the alt key at start-up to choose OSX, then he says nothing come up, so i told him to hold down the X key at start-up, still nothing so i thought his HD must have died, so i went round there with his original 10GB Hd that came with his imac, (i replaced it with a 80GB maxtor one) anyway i started up using the OSX DVD, disk utility tells me that the drive is Verified, but not formatted, i pondered as to how that could happen then went on to erase it and reformat it, nothing worked and it just stopped a 10th of the way so i took it out, and put the 10GB in, that worked fine, so i took the 80Gb home with me to take a closer look, and i still get the same results, i can't do anything unless it's formatted, which it won't let me do. Anyone know what to do ?, also SMART reporter tells me it's verified, it will also not mount on the desktop
last night i received a phone call from my granddad. saying his G3 iMac was flashing a ? mark at him and a smily face, so i told him to hold down the alt key at start-up to choose OSX, then he says nothing come up, so i told him to hold down the X key at start-up, still nothing so i thought his HD must have died, so i went round there with his original 10GB Hd that came with his imac, (i replaced it with a 80GB maxtor one) anyway i started up using the OSX DVD, disk utility tells me that the drive is Verified, but not formatted, i pondered as to how that could happen then went on to erase it and reformat it, nothing worked and it just stopped a 10th of the way so i took it out, and put the 10GB in, that worked fine, so i took the 80Gb home with me to take a closer look, and i still get the same results, i can't do anything unless it's formatted, which it won't let me do. Anyone know what to do ?, also SMART reporter tells me it's verified, it will also not mount on the desktop
