Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in.
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2
disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This
made no sense so I tried resetting
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2
disk, but only got the flashing question mark.
Rereading this post led me to understand that you have a clean
HD without any OS on it. Boot from a OS 9 CD.
Err; that is where he is falling down; on booting from a CD.
A) Try
Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have
hit the solution yet.
I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the
8gb. I then put the drive back in the WS and it did
the same thing.
I haven't tried the metal strip because I thought this
was related only to sleep issues and
On 23/06/05 13:03, Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have
hit the solution yet.
I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the
8gb. I then put the drive back in the WS and it did
the same thing.
I haven't tried the metal strip
Is the new drive an ATA-6 drive? I have read Lombards
will not run on a ATA-6, max is a ATA-5. I don't know
if this is true on a Wallstreet.
Just my .$ 02
Mike
--- Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We
have
hit the solution yet.
I did
On Jun 23, 2005, at 5:29 PM, John Abraham wrote:
One thing that I did find out is the Wallstreet is an Old World Mac
Computer, This means it is reluctant to boot from the CD drive
whilst pressing the C key on start up.
Hmm. My wallstreet would boot from a CD whether the C key were pressed
Since it will boot to the Cd with the old drive in the computer I would
say the problem is with the formatting of the drive in the G4 machine. I
would bet that the OS on that machine is X and that would cause the
problem. I would try a machine with OS 9(not classic) first too format
the HD
Don't forget the drive work in another computer!!
Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 23/06/05 13:03, Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have
hit the solution yet.
I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the
8gb. I then put the drive
Since it will boot to the Cd with the old drive in the computer I
would say the problem is with the formatting of the drive in the G4 machine.
Actually, I thinking other things. The new drive draws too much
current; or it hogs the data lines because ??..
Hmm; on a PB; what controls
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:03:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem with Wallstreet HD install
Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have
hit the solution yet.
I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the
8gb. I
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in.
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2
disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This
made no sense so I tried resetting
Ben, did you format the new hard drive?
On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Ben Woodard wrote:
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in.
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the
At 02:53 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote:
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in.
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2
disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This
On the WS the OS needs to be located in a partition less than 8GB in
size and it must be located in the first 8GB on the drive.
Matt
On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Ben Woodard wrote:
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
At 3:31 PM -0400 6/22/05, David Lesher wrote:
At 02:53 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote:
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in.
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2
disk,
At 3:31 PM -0400 6/22/05, David Lesher wrote:
At 02:53 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote:
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in.
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2
disk,
At 5:39 PM -0400 6/22/05, Matt and Sue Halter wrote:
On the WS the OS needs to be located in a partition less than 8GB in
size and it must be located in the first 8GB on the drive.
True but the OP hadn't gotten that far, they were trying to boot from CD.
Matt
On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Ben
I would try to boot into 9.2.1 first and then partition the hard drive
with the 8 gig partition and then install OS X this should work fine
Shaack
Ben Woodard wrote:
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
Hitachi i bought
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