[drainyoo]

They just gave me a new G5 here at work and the tech guy did a carbon copy of the whole drive onto the G5. I wish he hadnt but its too late now. Anyways, I tried starting up the G5 and Im getting the folder with the ? in it. I check the drive and the system is on there but it cant find it. Is there a way to select the system folder? I already tried holding OPTION on start up but nothing came up.

[SMacTech]

The option key will allow you to select the drive, partition and the OS to boot from. Possibly you didn't invoke the key soon enough?

[drainyoo]

I did cause the buttons came up, the restart button the arrow button, but there was no drive or folder available.

[Luca Rescigno]

Holding down option only works if you have an OS installed on different partitions or different drives. If you have OS 9 and OS X installed on the same partition, it won't work.