Can it be that the new drive was not formatted to accept OS 9 drivers? If so, it may also be that the only way out is to start over. But then, why would it work when in the FireWire case? I'm guessing, so I hope a few experts chime in here.
-- Al Poulin Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, proactive self-defense is for the rest of us. "Michael Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The whole Carbon Copy Cloner thing has left me with more questions than > answers. > > I put the new 120 Gig WD hard drive in an external FW case and ran CCC > off the iMac under OSX 10.2.8 to copy both volumes of the original > internal 30-gig Maxtor onto the two partitions of the FW Western > Digital. > > After running CCC The external FW drive booted the iMac perfectly from > BOTH cloned partitions, OSX10.2.8 and OS9.1 > > Then I put the WD drive into the iMac and first I tried it with NO > JUMPERS indicating that it was the ONLY drive in the computer. > > Unfortunately, once it got into the iMac the OS9.1 volume was no lomnger > able to boot the computer and when I started the computer up off a CD > the hard drive simply DISAPPEARED. > > I've tried this with several StartUp CDs including OSX and OS9.1 > installer CDs, and TechTool and DiskWarrior and in every case the CD is > the ONLY drive icon that shows up on the Desktop. The utilities on the > CDs cannot find the drive at all. > > I installed TT Pro 4 on the OSX volume and ran it to check the hard > drive. It reports that the hard drive is A-OK. > > So... if I try to start up off any CD it does not see the hard drive but > if I eject the CD and start up the computer it fires up just fine on > OSX. > > I noticed fronm the Apple DV SE iMac Service Manual that > > 1/ There is only ONE ATA cable for the ATAPI DVD drive and the ATA hard > drive > > 2/ The manual says when replacing the optical drive MAKE SURE that the > DVD/CD drive is set as a Slave. > > This made me think that setting the WD drive as Master would be the > right thing to do if its sharing a cable with a device set as Slave so I > put the jumper in to make the WD drive the Master but it seems to make > no difference. Unless the OSX partition is the StartUp device the drive > does not mount at all. > > Mind you, in OSX The computer runs GREAT ! > > But it is no longer possible to install any systems or run any utilities > on the hard drive because utility and System install disks can't see the > hard drive and it is not possible to boot off the OS9.1 partition > because even though the System folder is blessed...it just doesn't work. > > I'm really not impressed. If this were MY iMac I'd reformat and > re-install fresh copies of the Systems and applications but since its my > daughters iMac I don't want to mess with it... -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
