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Is my motherboard fried?
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Martha's Vineyard
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After running Onyx and having a power outage I'm screwed. My G4 800/ibook when restarted gave my a blinking folder/? over and over. Running disk utility and Disk Warrior did nothing.
I assumed my drive was fried, thus ordered an new one, but after starting with the OS disks the OS install program does not give me the hard drive to select and then run the install. Ran the disk utility and in the top left hand corner of the first dialog box I see the HD, but it won't allow me to run a check.
Any ideas?
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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I think you need to format the (new) HD
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is formatting something different from installing and running the os?
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CATS is right, most hard drives are shipped unformatted so that they can be set up for FAT, NTSF, HFS+ or others. When you boot with the installation CD go to the menu bar where is says Utilities, choose Disk Utility, click the Erase tab. One partition, Mac Extended Journaled and all of your problems will be solved.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Thanks. I'll try it. A bit worried since I swapped out a drive before, but it must have came already formatted. Looking forward to a 7200 rpm drive, more ram, and a new track pad.
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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ran the utility, went to erase and set to extended journal, clicked erase(realize I shouldn't have, went to partition and clicked partition one and ran the partition run. Went back to the installerand when it came to "select a destination" I got the hard drive this time, but there is a red stop sign with an exclamation point on it. The info below says "Untitled 1, 74.4gb free". At this point clicking on the icon does nothing leaving me unable to proceed.
Help
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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It usually means the destination drive is too small, which is not your case. Give it a quick reboot and see what happens. Also, look in console, and see what logs you have for the disk utility.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Thanks to all. Restarted it and it ran the installer w/o a hitch.
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just a quick FYI, all Mac OS install discs require a reboot after formatting to install.. EXCEPT 10.4 install discs.
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