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New hard drive in titanium G4 won’t initialize...
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Hi,
I have just replaced the hard drive in a 2001 Titanium G4 Lap top. I have tried a variety of start-up disks, from the original disks (even OS9) to the latest Tiger disks, but when (in disk utility) I try to initialize/ partition or erase I get a failure message.
The new hard drive appears in disk utility but not when I am installing (I am guessing this means that it is plugged in correctly).
I am probably being a total dunce, but can any one help?
Nix
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I just put a new harddrive in an ibook and it wouldn't even recognize under the OSX install. I booted using the OS9 cd, then initialized the drive using the Drive Setup program (in the the utilities folder). Then when I went back to the OSX setup, the drive showed up and it installed fine.
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Thanks for the advice, using OS9 got me passed the initialise stage.
It then began to hang mid intalation of OSX - I am now running “tech tool” surface scan which has so far taken two hours, is only about 2% done and has identified 48 bad blocks.
Do you think that I have a dodgy drive?
Nix
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Might be. If it's brand new it shouldn't have ANY bad sectors. Well, that's the theory anyways...looks like you may have a bad drive. It will work fine (more than likely) when it's accessing 'good' clusters of the hard drive, but when it reaches a bad one...I bet you that's where it's having its problems.
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"I cluck, therefor I am."
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It was a brand new drive.
It has now been running for 3 hours and has found 54 bad blocks (about 3% through).
Is there anything that I could have done to cause this when installing? (I was very careful!)
If I take it back I need my defence planned!
Nix
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maybe if you shook the drive really hard or threw it around, you would get bad sectors like that. 
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Hopefully you can return the HDD for a refund.
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