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Will Not Recognize Hard Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="somabrand" data-source="post: 920667" data-attributes="member: 125467"><p>Yesterday, my girlfriend's MacBook (OS X 10.4) decided to have a kernel panic. Being a PC user, I had no idea what was going on so I did a little Google searching and came across this forum. Following the advice given by many members in regard to kernel panics, I tried resetting the nvram and pram. Nothing. </p><p></p><p>I next tried starting her laptop in Singler User Mode in order to run a diagnostic but her laptop would not recognize that I was pressing Shift+S. I checked her RAM to make sure it wasn't third party. It was the original RAM (two 512 MB) installed when she received her computer so that shouldn't be the problem.</p><p></p><p>I decided to go for broke and to just reinstall Tiger. Placing the cd inside the laptop and pressing the C key did not boot from the cd. It wasn't until I rebooted and held down the OPT key that it rebooted. The screen shows two boot options to choose from: the hard drive or the cd. If I choose the hard drive it goes through its normal set up screen that it gets stuck on and after a few minutes it shows the "You need to restart you computer..." screen in multiple languages. If I try to repair the generic hard drive using the Disk Utility using the instal cd it gives me an error message everytime first saying that there's an Invalid Volume Header and then it says that First Aid failed because there was an Invalid Node Structure and then the Volume Check Failed. It reads "Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit."</p><p></p><p>Now when I try to just reinstall Tiger and I have to select a destination, the installer does not even recognize that I have a hard drive to install to. ??!!</p><p></p><p>Help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="somabrand, post: 920667, member: 125467"] Yesterday, my girlfriend's MacBook (OS X 10.4) decided to have a kernel panic. Being a PC user, I had no idea what was going on so I did a little Google searching and came across this forum. Following the advice given by many members in regard to kernel panics, I tried resetting the nvram and pram. Nothing. I next tried starting her laptop in Singler User Mode in order to run a diagnostic but her laptop would not recognize that I was pressing Shift+S. I checked her RAM to make sure it wasn't third party. It was the original RAM (two 512 MB) installed when she received her computer so that shouldn't be the problem. I decided to go for broke and to just reinstall Tiger. Placing the cd inside the laptop and pressing the C key did not boot from the cd. It wasn't until I rebooted and held down the OPT key that it rebooted. The screen shows two boot options to choose from: the hard drive or the cd. If I choose the hard drive it goes through its normal set up screen that it gets stuck on and after a few minutes it shows the "You need to restart you computer..." screen in multiple languages. If I try to repair the generic hard drive using the Disk Utility using the instal cd it gives me an error message everytime first saying that there's an Invalid Volume Header and then it says that First Aid failed because there was an Invalid Node Structure and then the Volume Check Failed. It reads "Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit." Now when I try to just reinstall Tiger and I have to select a destination, the installer does not even recognize that I have a hard drive to install to. ??!! Help! [/QUOTE]
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