[NavyGreen33@gmail.com]

A friend of mine recently gave me her old Emac G4. She told me it just had a bunch of viruses and stuff *laugh* so I knew I was getting a great deal. So I took it home, turned it on and sure enough, the computer was really screwed up. Somehow she really messed up OS 10.3 so bad that I was gonna have to reinstall everything.

She didn't have any of the original restore discs so I borrowed some from another friend who has this exact EMac, but when I put them in and hold C while rebooting, they don't boot to the cd. The only disc that will boot is my 10.4 upgrade dvd.

So what I tried to do (this ended up being really dumb) is use disc utility in the 10.4 dvd to erase the harddrive. Don't ask me why, it was really dumb. Now I just have an Emac that won't boot to anything but the 10.4 dvd which is completely pointless.

Any ideas?

[mduell]

Why can't you install OSX off your 10.4 DVD?

[NavyGreen33@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by mduell 

Why can't you install OSX off your 10.4 DVD?

It's an upgrade DVD. there's nothing to upgrade on a blank HD.

[ickystay]

Now that the HD is blank, your computer might be really happy to see a cd in the drive with a system folder on it. Have you tried the original emac discs again? Pry open the door if you have to. Worked for me once when I upgraded the HD in my emac 733.