I installed a new (used) 540mb HD in my LC III. This was purchased
online from a company who specifically mentioned LC IIIs and other older
Macs as being able to use their reformatted drives. The unit is a
Seagate (Conner) 5400rpm and made for IBM. I Installed it and the system
wouldn't recognise it. I booted from a Zip drive with OS 7.6 and a few
utilities. The SCSI Probe listed it correctly but when I clicked Mount,
the message said "The large volume connected to your computer cannot be
used because a 68040 or PowerPC CPU is required for volume sizes larger
than 4 gigabytes." This HD was supposed to come Mac formatted with
Anubis Drive Utility software and 100mb of shareware.
Ok, so I ran Norton Disk Editor, started weeding through the code and
found some OS 8.1 elements on the disk, also some text Telling me that
in order to load 7.5 - 7.6.x, I would need either another drive with
8.1, or another computer with 8.1. I don't have these available to me. I
could use Norton to wipe the disk but I'm guessing that it still won't
be recognised by the system. Am I correct about this?
My main question is, is there any relatively cheap way to get this
disk to work with my LC III? Bear in mind that I am currently only on
line with a WebTV (insert a stream of blue language) and can't download
anything. The only option I can see right now is to eat the postage both
ways and pay a 15% restock fee. This company has been no help in the
Tech Support area. I have a working IIsi with a 240mb HD if that can be
useful in any way.
Sorry about the length, but I like to provide as much information as
I can. Thanks, Hardy
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