I have a G4 Quicksilver. It has OSX 10.4 on an 80 GB hard drive and a second 200 GB hard drive that only showed 128 GB. OSX crashed on the 80 GB hard drive. Not having the original disks, I purchased a retail version of OSX 10.4.
I also got EIDE hard drive (320 GB) that plugs into the same connector as the old 80 GB drive.
Here is what I have done and what I see…
I installed the 200 GB hard drive as the slave (just as it was before) and the 320 GB drive as the master. I fired up the computer with OSX in the DVD player. OSX only sees the 200 GB drive.
I put the old 80 GB drive in as the master and the 200 GB hard drive as the slave (just as it was originally). OSX sees both drives.
It appears new drive is not seen, but both of the old drives are seen. After I turned off the computer, I pressed the little button by the battery in the chassis thinking that would initialize something. Did not change the situation.
Is it possible that there is some preparation needed to make the new drive visible to OSX?
I am a Windows user. I was hoping the Apple would be an easy install. I have heard so much about how much easier the Apple is to work with. This is not showing up as any better situation than my Windows computers. I hope the fix is obvious and simple.
By the way, it looks like this computer does not allow over about 128 GB of the drive to be seen. The 200 GB drive only shows 128 GB. That means that I have the version of G4 Mac that allows only 128 GB.
I also got EIDE hard drive (320 GB) that plugs into the same connector as the old 80 GB drive.
Here is what I have done and what I see…
I installed the 200 GB hard drive as the slave (just as it was before) and the 320 GB drive as the master. I fired up the computer with OSX in the DVD player. OSX only sees the 200 GB drive.
I put the old 80 GB drive in as the master and the 200 GB hard drive as the slave (just as it was originally). OSX sees both drives.
It appears new drive is not seen, but both of the old drives are seen. After I turned off the computer, I pressed the little button by the battery in the chassis thinking that would initialize something. Did not change the situation.
Is it possible that there is some preparation needed to make the new drive visible to OSX?
I am a Windows user. I was hoping the Apple would be an easy install. I have heard so much about how much easier the Apple is to work with. This is not showing up as any better situation than my Windows computers. I hope the fix is obvious and simple.
By the way, it looks like this computer does not allow over about 128 GB of the drive to be seen. The 200 GB drive only shows 128 GB. That means that I have the version of G4 Mac that allows only 128 GB.