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Long story short:
I have a G4 Dual 500MHz power PC with 768 Mb memory. It is quite old and was creaking so I just bought a new iMac 24" 2.8Ghz.
I tried to copy from G4 to iMac but iMac could not see the target drive (worked fine with laptop).
Mac help said I must upgrade Tiger from 10.4.8 to 10.4.11 using software update. (The laptop has 10.4.11).
Software update run on the G4 failed to find an OSX upgrade, so I tried to do it manually from the Apple website. At the end of this process I got a fail message. On trying to restart the G4 it will not boot up at all.
I tried booting up in safe mode and selecting the HD that way, but all I get is a black screen (reminds me of DOS).
Luckily I have another drive on the G4 that I use as a backup. That has most data on it and a copy of 10.4.8 so I can get into the computer.
The data on the original hard drive is not missing, as I have been able to access it with an Iomega 1Tb drive that I use for the iMac Time Machine backup.
I would like to restore the original G4 HD to normal operation but have no idea what to do. I do not have the original discs anymore as I bought this machine several years ago and have no idea where they are.
Any expert help would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Adrian
I have a G4 Dual 500MHz power PC with 768 Mb memory. It is quite old and was creaking so I just bought a new iMac 24" 2.8Ghz.
I tried to copy from G4 to iMac but iMac could not see the target drive (worked fine with laptop).
Mac help said I must upgrade Tiger from 10.4.8 to 10.4.11 using software update. (The laptop has 10.4.11).
Software update run on the G4 failed to find an OSX upgrade, so I tried to do it manually from the Apple website. At the end of this process I got a fail message. On trying to restart the G4 it will not boot up at all.
I tried booting up in safe mode and selecting the HD that way, but all I get is a black screen (reminds me of DOS).
Luckily I have another drive on the G4 that I use as a backup. That has most data on it and a copy of 10.4.8 so I can get into the computer.
The data on the original hard drive is not missing, as I have been able to access it with an Iomega 1Tb drive that I use for the iMac Time Machine backup.
I would like to restore the original G4 HD to normal operation but have no idea what to do. I do not have the original discs anymore as I bought this machine several years ago and have no idea where they are.
Any expert help would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Adrian