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Clamshell hard drive upgrade problem
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addmister
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Oct 23, 2006, 05:14 AM
 
I recently got an orange clamshell iBook which had a 3gig hard drive. I pulled it apart and put in a 20gig one and everything turned on fine. After going through the OS X installation though I came to the part where I select the destination drive which was blank. I tried another 40gig hard drive and had the same problem. I can install ubuntu fine though. I tried OS 9 and it can find the hard drive but wont let me install to it. Do I need to format the hard drive before I install it in the iBook? Or have I just broken it? Help!

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Oct 23, 2006, 08:13 AM
 
you need to use disk utility (in one of the menus in the menubar during installation, different depending what version of OS X you're using) to create a HFS+ partition for OS X to be installed to. The reason your destination drive section is blank is because there's no volume created on the new hard drive for the installer to use.
     
   
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