Hi there. I'm completely frazzled at the moment and I would kill for some help in solving an issue with my iMac. Alright, here's the deal. A couple years back, I'm pretty sure I killed my HDD in my 2007 iMac.( Flashing file icon with question mark. Tried booting from install disk, but my drive wouldn't show in disk utility.) So, without the money or know-how to replace my the drive, I sadly have let the poor machine sit. But, a while back I finally bought myself a new hard drive and went through the process of replacing the old one. Here's where I'm stuck...
Since the hard drive is new and not formatted, my computer still won't boot. So I figure I just need to restore it with a disc. Unfortunately, I misplaced my original install disc, but not before backing it up of course. I copied the images onto my iMac, which doesn't help, as well as an old laptop running windows xp. I would go about just burning it image to a blank disc and boot my iMac that way, but every time I try, the burn fails. So, that's a no-go. I would also try using Target Disk mode, IF that would even work, though I am doubtful. My only other option, besides finding and buying another install disc, would be to use a flash drive to restore my iMac. But, I'm pretty sure the reason I'm not having any luck with this method is because to boot my iMac from a usb device, it needs to be formatted using GPT, which isn't native to XP. So, I was wondering if any one here knew of some kind of workaround that could help solve my problem. I really feel like my best bet would be to use my flash drive with my backup image and if there was anyway to make it bootable using Windows XP, it would be awesome. Thanks for any help in advance.
Since the hard drive is new and not formatted, my computer still won't boot. So I figure I just need to restore it with a disc. Unfortunately, I misplaced my original install disc, but not before backing it up of course. I copied the images onto my iMac, which doesn't help, as well as an old laptop running windows xp. I would go about just burning it image to a blank disc and boot my iMac that way, but every time I try, the burn fails. So, that's a no-go. I would also try using Target Disk mode, IF that would even work, though I am doubtful. My only other option, besides finding and buying another install disc, would be to use a flash drive to restore my iMac. But, I'm pretty sure the reason I'm not having any luck with this method is because to boot my iMac from a usb device, it needs to be formatted using GPT, which isn't native to XP. So, I was wondering if any one here knew of some kind of workaround that could help solve my problem. I really feel like my best bet would be to use my flash drive with my backup image and if there was anyway to make it bootable using Windows XP, it would be awesome. Thanks for any help in advance.
