The installer does not see the disk ibook 10.4

I have an iBook g3 on ​​which I installed 10.4 Tiger.
However, I wanted it to update the computer.
During this process i shut it down.
When I try to switch it on a gray screen came with a question mark.
I wanted to install tiger again, but this time the installer does not see the disk.
What could be wrong?

nelight said:

I have an iBook g3 on ​​which I installed 10.4 Tiger.
However, I wanted it to update the computer.
During this process i shut it down.

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I'm confused. Did this computer ever run 10.4 successfully? Not sure if the problems started right after the 10.4 install...or sometime (hours. days, weeks, months, etc.) later.

nelight said:

When I try to switch it on a gray screen came with a question mark.

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This means there's no valid OS installed on the drive...or the drive is dead.

nelight said:

I wanted to install tiger again, but this time the installer does not see the disk. What could be wrong?

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Not sure how many times 10.4 has been installed on this computer...or if 10.4 was ever running properly on it (see above). What disk are you using to do the install. Is it a gray disk? If so...where did it come from?

If the optical drive is not "seeing" the disk...the optical drive may be going bad, may be dirty, the disk could be damaged, etc. Also...are you holding down the "c" key to get the computer to boot from the install disk?

- Nick

The computer doesn't think it has a valid OS. On top of that it seems to be having trouble seeing the drive. Give these tips a try. If this does not work it's possible that the drive is dying/dead.

Is this the original drive.

Tiger war there installed, I want to reinstall it after he didn't want to start.
iBook G3 Can run maximum 10.4.11
I can't get to single-user mode or safe mode.

nelight said:

Tiger war there installed...

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Sorry...I have no idea what this means.

Also...you didn't answer some important questions in my earlier post...so I really cannot help any further until we get those answered.

- Nick

I'm confused. Did this computer ever run 10.4 successfully? Not sure if the problems started right after the 10.4 install...or sometime (hours. days, weeks, months, etc.) later.

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Yes, g3 can run 10.4 successfully.
There where no problems. I was updating the system, pulled the plug out and the computer turned off during update.
Can the disk be dead after something like that?

Not sure how many times 10.4 has been installed on this computer...or if 10.4 was ever running properly on it (see above). What disk are you using to do the install. Is it a gray disk? If so...where did it come from?

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There was osx 10.1 and i install there 10.4 and that thing happen during updating from 10.4.9 to 10.4.11
I've got a 20GB harddrive.
Yes, the gray.

nelight said:

Yes, the gray.

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Thanks for the info. Only question not answered is...where did this gray disk come from?

- Nick

Pulled the plug out...you mean whilst it was updating? If so you may have killed the hard drive.