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graphics84 · Feb 8, 2003, 12:00 AM

My main hard drive kinda died on me...
(dual 533)

I tried to reinstall 10 on it... and as it installed it my screen went blue for a while then went black... it said an error occurred during installation and then let me hit enter to restart.

I could see the hard drive (running via another drive in machine and via Firewire)

but when I run the disk utility is dies when I'm erasing it (the bad drive)

any ideas?

graphics84 · Feb 8, 2003, 04:39 PM

well I got it to erase in OS 9... and I even zero's all data...

but the install gets an error still...

i think the drive is dead

any ideas?

bradoesch · Feb 8, 2003, 11:07 PM

Have you tried replacing the cable? You said the drive works fine installed in another machine and in a FireWire case (I believe that's what you said), so it sounds like the data cable is faulty. Or perhaps it's the power cable. You might want to try a different power cable and see if that helps at all.