Think I wiped whole drive on G4 PPC

MrSeymour · MrSeymour #1 (**permalink**)

04-06-2012, 01:00 PM

Hi,
Forgive me if this has been covered already, I have looked elsewhere on the forum, and carried out general web searches but Im stumped now.
I took an old G4 power PC off a friends hands, so that I could have a little tinker with different OS (I don't want to do any damage to my macbook!) so I tried to install another OS, and in doing so I think I may have completely wiped out the whole system. I cant even remember what I actually did, but it involved the partitions, I thought I was wiping a separate partition that I created to install (Linux), cos i bottled out and started to get out of my depth.
so now when i turn the machine on i get a grey screen with an alternating world/file/question mark.

I dont have any install discs for this machine, so can I do anything to get it back to a usable state?

any help anyone can give would be so much appreciated.

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

04-06-2012, 02:24 PM

It appears you may have accidentally wiped the hard drive or partition. Not much you can do without an install disk. That machine can probably run Tiger, however, a retail copy of Tiger may be difficult to find and possibly expensive. You can of course always install Linux on the machine if you so choose.

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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 31,978 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	04-06-2012, 02:24 PM It appears you may have accidentally wiped the hard drive or partition. Not much you can do without an install disk. That machine can probably run Tiger, however, a retail copy of Tiger may be difficult to find and possibly expensive. You can of course always install Linux on the machine if you so choose. Community Guidelines
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MrSeymour #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 24, 2009 Posts: 3	04-06-2012, 01:00 PM Hi, Forgive me if this has been covered already, I have looked elsewhere on the forum, and carried out general web searches but Im stumped now. I took an old G4 power PC off a friends hands, so that I could have a little tinker with different OS (I don't want to do any damage to my macbook!) so I tried to install another OS, and in doing so I think I may have completely wiped out the whole system. I cant even remember what I actually did, but it involved the partitions, I thought I was wiping a separate partition that I created to install (Linux), cos i bottled out and started to get out of my depth. so now when i turn the machine on i get a grey screen with an alternating world/file/question mark. I dont have any install discs for this machine, so can I do anything to get it back to a usable state? any help anyone can give would be so much appreciated.
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