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HD Died, Replaced it, iBook doesn't Recognize it.
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Last week, the 20gb hd in my iBook 600 died. I ordered a 40gb Fujitsu and installed that, thinking I could just boot from cd, format, and install the os. The iBook wouldn't start up from the OS X cd, it would hang at the Apple logo which would turn into a circle with a slash. So then I tried using OS 9 and that booted fine. However, I could not get Drive Setup to see the drive but System Profiler showed a HD was connected. I installed OS X and 9 to an external drive but the boot process stops at the grey screen with the Apple logo.
Any ideas? Thanks.
PS. The hardware diagnostic CD gives a script error.
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Ok, I have now successfully booted a new install of OS X from the external HD, must have been a bad install before. I've read that sometimes iBooks have problems with unformatted HDs? Not sure why. I really don't think my new Fujitsu drive is bad. But right now I don't know of anyone who could format/install on the 2.5" drive.
I opened up Disc Utility in 10.2.8 (the newest OS I have access to atm) and it lists the internal drive as "0,00 Bytes ÄΩ,,"
Anyone experience this before?
(Last edited by JonoG4; Jun 16, 2005 at 10:48 PM.
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You have to boot from CD then reformat the drive using the Disk Utilities in the installer. 99% of any drives you buy will require formatting before use. I can't think of any retail drives that come HFS+ formatted.
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Originally Posted by Hi I'm Ben
You have to boot from CD then reformat the drive using the Disk Utilities in the installer. 99% of any drives you buy will require formatting before use. I can't think of any retail drives that come HFS+ formatted.
Yeah, I'm fully aware of this 
What I am saying is, I cannot get Disk Utility to format the drive... For some reason it sees the drive as having "0,00" bytes :/
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I assume because of it desplaying as 0,00 bytes the erase button is grayed out.
If it's not then just try it anyway, and format as HFS.
Is it connected properly?
If you still can't get anywhere then send it back and get a new drive.
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