Many thanks Bruce
Are you certain this HD is formatted correctly for a PPC Mac? The partition
scheme MUST be Apple Partition Scheme and NOT GUID Partition Scheme used
on Intel Macs, OR Master Boot Record Partition Scheme used on PCs. You can
check the partition scheme in System
On Feb 14, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
My guess is that there's either a subtle break in the cable or the IDE
controller is foo in the TiBook.
Before I did the above, I wanted to check if there was a clash between the
IDE optical drive and the IDE disk drive, so I disconnected
Thanks to Dan and Kris for responses so far
So what can I have done to the TiBook? The obvious candidate is the
connection from HD to motherboard but it seems intact and to be firmly
plugged into the mobo. Is there another bit I could have wrecked?
IDE drive, yes? Still set to cable
On Feb 13, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
This went as you described - but still flashing 'where's the system'
folder icon after attempt to reboot.
Are you certain this HD is formatted correctly for a PPC Mac? The
partition scheme MUST be Apple Partition Scheme and NOT GUID
On Feb 13, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Feb 13, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
This went as you described - but still flashing 'where's the system' folder
icon after attempt to reboot.
Are you certain this HD is formatted correctly for a PPC Mac? The partition
scheme
On Feb 12, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
After a few shenanigans (the SSD with which I replaced the HD became
corrupted), I tried to revert to using the original HD (A 60GB fujitsu with
partitions for MacOSes 10·5·8, 10·4·11 and 9·2·2.
You know, rereading your inital post leads me
Hi folks
I have 1GHz TiBook. After a few shenanigans (the SSD with which I replaced the
HD became corrupted), I tried to revert to using the original HD (A 60GB
fujitsu with partitions for MacOSes 10·5·8, 10·4·11 and 9·2·2.
With the HD inside the TiBook, it won't boot - it's as if there is no
At 10:53 PM + 2/12/2012, Bruce Ryan wrote:
So what can I have done to the TiBook? The obvious candidate is the
connection from HD to motherboard but it seems intact and to be
firmly plugged into the mobo. Is there another bit I could have
wrecked?
IDE drive, yes? Still set to cable
Sorry, second paragraph should have been
With the HD inside the TiBook, it won't boot - it's as if there is no disk in
the machine. (This is confirmed when I restart holding down alt/option to
generate a list of boot disks - this list is empty. I can't hear the disk
spinning up, even with
You should zap the PRAM and reset the NVRAM whenever you're changing
out hardware such as a HD.
You should also boot OS X with a Safe Boot to rebuild the system caches.
Hold Cmd-Opt-P-R keys for several chimes to zap the PRAM, then after
one chime slide the fingers on P R over to O F so
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