Let me start at the beginning for those who have not heard this sad tale before. Bought a Beige 266 Mhz G3 off Ebay (final rev mobo). It came with 96 Mb of RAM and a Fujitsu 3.2 Gb HD with OS 9.2.2 installed. Came with a standard sound card and I bought a Wings AV card for it. Meantime I installed the mobo, drives and Wings card in a standard PC ATX case. Took out the 3.2 Gb HD and installed a 20 Gb Maxtor HD. Installed OSX (10.2.8 after update) and more RAM (now 160 Mb). Seemed to work fine. Downloaded and installed several programs which all seemed to work pretty well. Bought another item, a Trios II multi HD selector and was going to use it to boot from one of three HDs. Got all the HD's installed along with the Trios hardware and could only boot from the 20 Gb HD with OSX. Along the line in playing with this device, I could not get the computer to boot any longer with any HD. Figured something with the G3 would not let it work with this device and removed it. I left all three HDs physically installed in the case, but just hooked up the primary (for lack of better term) IDE cable to one drive at a time to see if I could get the computer to boot. No go. Thanks to the suggestions from this list I reset the P-RAM and was finally able to boot from the small 2 Gb HD with OS 8.5 on it. Later on I got it to boot with the 3.2 Gb HD with OS 9.2.2 on it. And then I hooked up both the OS 8.5 HD (set to master) and the OS 9.2.2 HD (set as slave) and could boot from either one by using the Control Panel to select the startup drive. Next I tried the OSX HD all alone on the IDE cable and could not get it to boot. Tried all kinds of different setups with one of the 2 drives which would boot and the OSX drive, but at no time could I get the OSX drive to boot. The drive setup in the utilities folder would find the drive, but it always said it was not mounted. I finally booted from the OSX CD and ran the verify and repair options, there was a folder messed up but it repaired just fine. It still will not boot nor can I mount the drive with 2 drives hooked up. I hate to lose all the stuff I downloaded and installed on the OSX HD so how can I either mount this HD or get it to boot? Forgot to mention, the OSX drive is partitioned as follows. OSX is on a 6 Gb partition at the beginning of the drive with the rest of the drive as an extended partition. -- Just a message from Doug... -------------------------------------------- http://users.adelphia.net/~slugg0/index.html
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