Hi everyone on the list. This is my first time posting. Here's my
situation. I recently purchased a 40 GB Western Digital HD 7200 RPM IDE
from OfficeMax. I've done HD (Maxtor drives) swapping in iMacs (2nd
generation) before with success. I'm now trying to install the Western
Digital into my parents 2nd Gen. iMac, but nothing is working. Here's
what it is doing, I reformatted the drive into two partitions. One 6 GB
and one 34 GB. I can install OS 9 and Jaguar on the drive. The problem
is when I try to boot the hard drive. the iMac doesn't recognize the
system/HD. I've tried all that I could think of. I made sure the right
system was selected in the control panel. I tried making the the Hard
drive a slave, master and cable select. Neither configuration worked.
The only one I haven't tried is to take off the jumpers completely
(this worked in my beige G3 AIO). I've tried holding the option key
down when Jaguar was installed, nothing. I've erased the Hard Drive a
second time and re-installed OS 9 and that didn't work. I've tried a
complete system restore from the original iMac disk and that didn't
work. The iMac's firmware is up to date. I've installed 256 MB of RAM
(lower slot) before the hard drive, but I made sure it was recognized
before I installed the Hard Drive. When I boot of a CD, the iMac still
sees the new RAM. I ran TechTool 3.x and it found nothing wrong with
the drive or RAM. I know sometimes new Hard Drives just don't simply
work on certain computers. This may be that case. I guess I could take
the RAM out I just installed and try to boot off the drive again, but
that's last on my list. I don't want to take the processor out again.
Anyone have any suggestions, questions or notice something I might be
missing (besides my mind). :)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Keith
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