Re: No Drive To Install OS To?

Tom Stiller <tomstiller@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1180128235.102331.126340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
hee_hee <heather3lliott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was given a G4 tower without hardrive or OS. So i'm trying to
install a hardrive and load OS X. I get through the installation to
the point where it asks me to select the drive I want the OS to go
onto, but there arent' any drives to select. The box is empty. Do I
have to format the hardrive in another computer before I load the OS
onto it? Any advice at all is appreciated. Thanks!

You can format the drive with the Install CD. Select "Disk Utility"
from the menubar and follow the onscreen instructions.

And more than likely the hard drive is currently formatted for a Windows
machine, and so will need formatting.

Best option is HFS+ (which you certainly want) Journalled (if you have a
sufficiently current OS X).
--
http://www.decohen.com
Send e-mail to the Reply-To address;
mail to the From address is never read
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: reformatting xp
    ... to do a low level format just to delete one partition. ... In order to do a very clean install you may want to download and ... format your primary partition and install XP. ... drives) and i just want to format one of the partitions. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: SP3
    ... load those programs and this time they could not wait to get loaded. ... I have tried uninstalling SP3, but that does not fix the problem. ... drive, that did not work as well, the install program still just hung. ... Now lets tackle the the issue of the cd drives. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: [opensuse] RE: Damaged Master Boot Record - Solved
    ... The first has 2 LBA IDE HDD, ... 1MHDD was to install Windoze XP - Its install program ... setting fdisk to format 1SHDD as drive C. ... How do I dismount all the drives to run fsck at Xterm? ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: Fresh Win2000 Install Questions
    ... two drives, C: for Win2K & programs, D: for data. ... I'll do the install with C: and D: on FAT32 then convert to NTFS ... No. Format the drive NTFS from the start. ... drive when you use the Windows 2000 CD, ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
  • Re: Before I cry please help.
    ... I didn't leave the install process at any time - I saw the format / yellow line reach 100% ... The system is still crashing (this why I wanted a clean install in the first place). ... One big lesson learnt - I will never leave any other drives in a system while XP install or Repair. ... When that loads you should see a window with two panes - a top pane and a bottom pane. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Loading