K K wrote:
Thanks, Clark. I did pull the battery and power adapter as you suggested and it did restart. However, the Pismo will now not recognise its hard drive but will start from the Tiger DVD Installer disk. Even Disk Utility on the installer disk does not show the Pismo hard drive. I restarted using the Option. Command, P and R keys and waited for 4 starts. Still no hard drive showing. Is there another procedure to rectify this and have the drive appear?
If Disk Utility won't see the drive it's just not there as far as the computer is concerned. Try opening it up, remove the HD, disconnect the cable at both ends then plug the cable back in at both ends and put it all together again. It's possible one of the connections has come loose.
If that doesn't do it then pull the drive and try it elsewhere (another computer, a FW/USB enclosure, etc.)
If it works outside then it's either the cable or the logic board. I had an iBook start flaking out, the disk got horribly corrupted. I replaced the drive but it still happened. I replaced the cable, no help. It had to have been the IDE controller on the logic board.
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