Sorry to see this tale. But it has been told before in these lists.
I had good results in the Disk Utility/Partition panel by checking the little box at: "Install Mac OS 9
Disk Drivers If this option is not selected, this device cannot be used by a computer running Mac OS 9. This option does not affect Classic."
I have two internal drives and reformatted both for OS X 10.3. For my old OS 9.2.2 System Folder, apps, and data, I copied from one drive to the newly formatted one (one partition) and then for backup purposes shuffled it all back to the original drive, now formatted with three partitions. All went well.
David Bjur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Al Poulin
One thing I learned the hard way: I partitioned the drive and formatted with the Disk Utility from OS X.3, but then found I was unable to mount the partitions in OS 9. I was able to boot into OS 9 with a firewire drive (my old internal drive in an external firewire enclosure, also from OWC) and format the partitions in OS 9 and update the drivers. This was after I installed OS X on one partition and restored my OS 9 data to the other, so the install/restore time was wasted by the reformat.
I then found I couldn't boot from the restored OS 9 partition; I finally did a fresh install starting with OS 9.0.4 and updating through 9.2.2, then restored my OS 9 data using the OS X Disk Utility and leaving "erase destination" unchecked.
Now everything works wonderfully. If you are planning a dual-boot, multiple-partition disk, I hope my experience helps. If anyone has a better procedure than my trial-and-error debacle, please share it with us.
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