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Powerbook G4 won't recognize new hard drive
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Powerbook G4 wouldn't see the old drive, Disk Utility wouldn't see it, so I purchased and installed new hard drive. But this drive too is invisible to the computer and to Disk Utility. What to do?? Thanks,  RB
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Originally Posted by robear77 
Powerbook G4 wouldn't see the old drive, Disk Utility wouldn't see it, so I purchased and installed new hard drive. But this drive too is invisible to the computer and to Disk Utility. What to do?? Thanks, RB
Check the flex cable for damage?
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I've seen the flex cables fail without obvious signs of damage. You'll need to try another to be sure. Otherwise it could have blown the controller. But then you probably wouldn't see the DVD either. Never seen an aluminium notebook with a dead ATA controller though.
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Thanks. I took it apart and paying particular attention to getting the drive cable well-seated and attached, it worked. The new drive was recognized, and appears to be correctly formatted, OK by DisK Utility and appears in System Profiler. But booting up from the install DVD, I get the message, "cannot install on this computer". The Disc Utility scans the new drive fine and it appears correctly formatted. What to do? Thanks RB
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In Disk Utility, what is the partition map scheme for the new drive? It needs to be Apple Partition Map in order to boot your PowerBook.
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Yes, Apple Partition Map. 298 GB Write Status: Read/Write S.M.A.R.T. status verified Connection ID Device 0 Connection type: Internal. I put one partition on it. Called One. Running First Aid on the partition One reports "The Volume One appears to be OK". System Profiler finds it at ATA Bus with Apple Partition Map and File System: Journaled HFS+. But it refuses to let me put a new OS X on this hard drive. Very strange. Thanks again. RB
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What OS version are you trying to install, and what are your machine specs? ie - clock speed, amount of RAM.
Also on the OS version, is it a retail install disc, or an install/restore disc from a different Mac?
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I am trying to install the latest OS system, 1.6, I believe, Snow Leopard , on a Powerbook G4 from 2003, 1 Gigahertz, 15" aluminum, model A1046. Is the problem that this OS is too modern? Second problem is that I can't seem to get the Powerbook to eject the DVD....Thanks, RB
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You can't run Snow Leopard on a PPC machine, only Intel. You need Leopard, 10.5, or older.
Boot and hold the trackpad button down to eject the disk.
Steve
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