[BAOAARON]

Hi there,

I need to cleanse (wipe out) the hard drive of a bunch of eMac, some of them have OS9 and some have blank harddrive. I was told that a 10.3 installation disk can also be booted in OS9, and then I can use the disk utlity function to wipe the hard drive.

However, every time I put the disk in an eMac (the colorful ones) and press the c key at start up, eMac spit out the disk after a while and boot from the HD instead.

My disk worked in PowerG4 and other newer Mac.

If 10.3 doesn't work on OS 9, what can I do? I don't have OS 9 disc, but I do have a whole bunch of eMac to be cleansed ad\nd then donate to non-profit.

I work for a school.

Thanks so mcuh!!

Aaron

[Sherman Homan]

Is the 10.3 Installation disk black? Or is it gray with a label specifically for the eMacs? One more question, when you say you have the colorful eMacs, I thought they were all sort of white. Do you have iMacs? Welcome to 'NN!

[BAOAARON]

Hi Sherman,

Yea, they are iMacs actually. I have both iMacs and eMacs. My install disk works well on eMacs, but not on iMacs (the white ones). The disk I have is a copy from another department, and the one they have is a copy as well. It works on eMacs, Powerbook, Power G4, but not iMacs. iMacs require some kind of speacial installation disk?? I just want to wipe the hard drive. Any other way I can do it? Thanks so much in advance !!!

Best,
Aaron

[MacosNerd]

Installation disks are keyed by type, so that if you have the eMac install disk, you cannot use that on your iMac (and vice versa).