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<blockquote data-quote="Chud" data-source="post: 1008132" data-attributes="member: 145344">Hey all! I am replacing the HD in a 15&quot; G4 Powerbook that I got for a great deal, knowing there would be a little work involved on it eventually (namely the hard drive).&nbsp; It went a little quicker than I would have liked and is no longer spinning up at all, and I just get the flashing folder w the question mark at bootup.I have a new Seagate drive ready to go in, but of course can't clone the drive because the old drive is dead.&nbsp; I have a few different OSX installs on disk, but I think the previous owner set the preferences to not allow booting from any external disk as I cannot get it to go into firewire target mode (T on startup).&nbsp; My question is then, if I wanted to install OSX on the drive prior to physically installing it, what might be some ways around this?&nbsp; I have a MBP that I could firewire the drive to and install from here, but don't know if I can install 10.3 or 10.5 onto a different laptop from a MPB running 10.6.I have Drive Genius and can initialize the drive prior to installing it, though OWC notes that their drives are pre-formatted for OS9 already.Any thoughts before I get back into the guts of my Powerbook?Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chud, post: 1008132, member: 145344"] Hey all! I am replacing the HD in a 15" G4 Powerbook that I got for a great deal, knowing there would be a little work involved on it eventually (namely the hard drive). It went a little quicker than I would have liked and is no longer spinning up at all, and I just get the flashing folder w the question mark at bootup. I have a new Seagate drive ready to go in, but of course can't clone the drive because the old drive is dead. I have a few different OSX installs on disk, but I think the previous owner set the preferences to not allow booting from any external disk as I cannot get it to go into firewire target mode (T on startup). My question is then, if I wanted to install OSX on the drive prior to physically installing it, what might be some ways around this? I have a MBP that I could firewire the drive to and install from here, but don't know if I can install 10.3 or 10.5 onto a different laptop from a MPB running 10.6. I have Drive Genius and can initialize the drive prior to installing it, though OWC notes that their drives are pre-formatted for OS9 already. Any thoughts before I get back into the guts of my Powerbook? Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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