On 23 Jun 2005, at 12:03, Ben Woodard wrote:
I haven't tried the metal strip because I thought this was related only to sleep issues and newer drives did not have the problem. Could be wrong.
No, you're right. I didn't know if you had an old drive or a new one.
It seems to be a problem with booting from the cd. I can do it with the old drive, but not the new.
Curious. Try another disc?
does the computer have to see a hd even if there is no OS on it?
No. The computer should be able to boot from the CD as long as it can read it. The computer will look for a boot volume. When it doesn't find one it should flash the folder icon with a '?' (OS X) or the sad Mac (OS 9). If you tell it to boot from the CD by holding down the 'c' button, I think it should boot.
Maybe there is something wrong with the new drive.
Could be. Do you have access to another HD, other than the old one, to swap out? See David Lesher's comments; try A then B.
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