Adding A new Hard drive to my Powermac G5

Air · Air #1 (**permalink**)

03-02-2012, 07:29 PM

Okay guys,

I bought a powermac g5, and it had a 160 gb sata hdd. I bought a segate momentous 750GB 7200 Rpm hdd, to replace the 160.

I have leapord to install on the new drive, but i tested the new hdd in my windows desktop, and had to format it to ntfs (Windows Universal).
How do i format it to be used with a mac??

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

03-02-2012, 08:08 PM

Is the G5 up and running with the old hard drive? If it is, put the new Seagate drive in the machine in a spare slot and boot up from the original drive. Then use Disk Utility to erase and format the drive to Mac OS Extended Journaled. Afterward, you can install Leopard on the new drive and use it to boot the Powermac.

Air · Air #3 (**permalink**)

03-02-2012, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by chscag

Is the G5 up and running with the old hard drive? If it is, put the new Seagate drive in the machine in a spare slot and boot up from the original drive. Then use Disk Utility to erase and format the drive to Mac OS Extended Journaled. Afterward, you can install Leopard on the new drive and use it to boot the Powermac.

Okay, Will do. Thanks!!
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Member Since: Feb 22, 2012 Location: West Virgina Posts: 108 Mac Specs: See Signature	03-02-2012, 07:29 PM Okay guys, I bought a powermac g5, and it had a 160 gb sata hdd. I bought a segate momentous 750GB 7200 Rpm hdd, to replace the 160. I have leapord to install on the new drive, but i tested the new hdd in my windows desktop, and had to format it to ntfs (Windows Universal). How do i format it to be used with a mac?? [Main Laptop/Computer] [April 2006] 17" MacBook Pro \| 2.33GHz C2D \| 4GB DDR2 RAM \| 120GB Intel 320 SSD \| Lion 10.7.5
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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 32,006 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	03-02-2012, 08:08 PM Is the G5 up and running with the old hard drive? If it is, put the new Seagate drive in the machine in a spare slot and boot up from the original drive. Then use Disk Utility to erase and format the drive to Mac OS Extended Journaled. Afterward, you can install Leopard on the new drive and use it to boot the Powermac. Community Guidelines
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