Nancy,
Put the Mac OS system CD into the CD drive.  This can
be tricky of the system won't boot.  Your dad can turn
on the computer and immediately push in the CD eject
button, wait for the tray to eject, put in the CD, and
press down on the "C" key to tell the computer to boot
from it.  Your dad should then double click on the CD
which will show up on the desktop, open the Utilities
folder, and open up Drive Setup.  He should then be
able to see the drive listed as an available volume to
initialize.  Click on the drive and then click
initialize.  He should also specify HFS+ format, if
possible.
Good luck.
George

--- Nancy Corkum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan
> The IDE drive is the only on in the machine since I
> bought it about 6 yrs
> ago. I installed systems on it before but I went PC
> and my dad now has the
> c500 and it needs a new system and I forget haw to
> do it.
> 
> Nancy
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 3:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [SM] Formating a c500
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> >
> >
> > Nancy Corkum wrote:
> >
> > I cannot remember how to format an IDE harddrive
> on a C500.
> > -----
> >
> > Use Apple's Drive Setup. (I think there is a
> 'Initialize' button.)
> > Format it as HFS+.
> > I am assuming this IDE drive is an extra one on
> the C500 and you have
> > something else to operate the C500.
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