--------------------------------------------John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Umm, you might want to reset your system clock. According to the date on
this email, it's December 31, 1969 where you are.
--------------------------------------------Ryan Eisworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
I'd say the battery is going dead.
Katherine Zysk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
--------------------------------------------I opened it up, re-seated the HD and pushed the reset button and it booted.
The battery isn't necessarily bad, Katherine pressed the reset button.
It is important not to run your System with the wrong date, especially in OS X. Creation dates help the System to identify different files & drives. You really need to run a utility to correct these errors ASAP.
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Any ideas on haw to get this bigger drive back into my imac?
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Zap the PRAM (Cmd-Opt-P-R) and clear the NVRAM by resetting the defaults in Open Firmware. After several chimes from PRAM zapping move the fingers on "P" & "R" over to "O" & "F" to boot into the Open Firmware prompt (Cmd-Opt-O-F).
At the prompt type:
set-defaults<Return>
reset-all<Return>
where <Return> means hit the Return key. The reply should be "OK" to the first, and a reboot to the second. It might boot now.
Run DiskWarrior 3.01 or greater if you have it. It's good enough that if it fails to help, you probably can't be helped by any other utility such as TechTool Pro or Norton.
If you must use Norton, from don't repair any OS X System files at all such as /etc, /var, /private, /mach and so on that might show up in a giant list of files needing repair. Instead of "Fix All" look at each file to be sure it isn't one of these System files (you can always 'try' fixing these later if you need to). Repairing these can break the Symbolic links and you'll end up unable to boot at all, the repair of this is very difficult.
The things that you do want to repair most of all will be "major errors" related to the format of the HD and say things like Bad System Wrapper, Bad Shell name, Bad System name, and should be listed all alone in Norton, not with other files to be repaired. Lastly use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
Several other tricks that might help is you're still not booting. I assume the drive has OS 9 drivers and perhaps and OS 9 System? First, on the iMac you can press the "Option" key at Startup to get all the bootable Systems to choose from. If the drive doesn't show up at all, as if it doesn't have any bootable Systems, use Drive Setup for OS 9.x to "Update Disk Driver" which you do by highlighting the drive in the Drive Setup window and select "update driver" from the options menu. It will probably say "the driver you are now using is newer than the one you are installing . . .", which you should "proceed", and it will downgrade the driver which can correct the non-booting drive problem. You also want to be sure the "auto-mount" or "mount on startup" is checked. Once this is done, try the "Option" key boot again and see if the drive & it's Systems show? If they do you're probably OK. If not, the only thing short of a reformat and reinstall might be to try using Intech HD Speedtools to "take over" the drive, which is a fancy way of saying "reformat on-the-fly" by moving the files as it goes along reformatting. It takes a good while, but perhaps is easier than a full reinstall or archive reinstall. With all your other problems you might consider starting over with a clean Panther install. I have done both clean Panther installation & the upgraded Jaguar that you did. I have had many more problems with the upgraded installations.
Good luck! Kris Tilford
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