best way... find a same mac (it will be easy...) put a new hd on it... install your desired system... get hd and put in old mac... try find suitable hd for it
2009/2/19 R. A. Cantrell <[email protected]> > Well, now I've gone and done it. I'm trying to fix up a Bondi iMac for a > neighbor kid, and it worked just fine till I fixed it. I could not remember > to password I had for the admin account, so I just hit it in the head with > HD SPeed Tools, thinking that I would then load up a new install of 9.1. > Well, now it will not mount any OS from a CD. I've tried the HDST disk > again, a generic 9.1 disk, Disk Warrior, and an Apple Hardware test disk. > the only one that made any progress was the AHT disk, which started to load, > but hung at "This Machine Does not support AHT." If I boot and zap p-ram, I > get to the Happy Face wanting an OS, but then it will not pick up any of the > CD boot volumes and goes from there to an image of a floppy flashing the > "?". Any light out there? > > -- > All the best, > > R.A. Cantrell > > > > -- Baha Ata --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
