Hello from a G4 (Ab)user II

[PPCPete]

Hi, I've managed to obtain a G4 400MHz and have been tinkering around with it.

I've successfully changed the CDRW to a DVDRW that's now recognised. I'm trying to upgrade the HDD and attached an old PC one which OSX has recognised it from original boot drive. Detaching the original boot drive and making the slave master OSX install gets to select destination drive and cannot see it....

What have I done wrong?

Original drive was set as Master... everything OK

New drive set to Master (still a PC NTFS drive ... is that the problem?)... not seen

Pls help!!!

 

[gsahli]

You didn't go quite all the way and tell us if Disk Utility could erase/reformat the drive after you've started up from the Install DVD.
Before you "Continue" the Install, Disk Utility is available in the top menus.

 

[MacsWork]

If the new HD is larger the 120GB it will not even be recognized in that model of Mac.

120 is the limit for ATA channels in that model. It will however recognize a 500GB drive on the USB or FW channel.

NTFS will need to be formatted to HFS+ using disk utility to have OS X installed on it.

If you want NTFS to just be a slave OS X will see it but will not be able to write to it natively.

There are third party NTFS drivers to give OS X write capabilities for NTFS volumes.

 

[PPCPete]

Sorry gsahli I didn't get back in time to cancel my last post (Mac in front room, PC in bedroom!) but thanks - I didn't notice Disk Utility at the time, but have now successfully reinstalled OSX on 120GB drive and renamed it Boot.

Thanks MacsWork... that saved me a lot of headaches in the future, I'm glad I found the 120GB now and explains why it read my 1TB external multimedia drive!