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Recently, the hard drive in my powerbook g4 started making horrible clicking noises, I immediately turned it off. When I turned it back on, it wouldn’t boot. I just got an image of a folder with a question mark flashing on it. After doing some research I came to the conclusion that the hard drive must need replacing, so i ordered a new one from ifixit and installed it but now it seems as though I can’t install the os from a boot disk. I insert the only install disk I have which is actually for my MacBook Pro (this could be the problem-I don’t have the original one as this is a second hand lap top) and hold down “option” as it starts up and this is the screen that greets me:
What am I doing wrong? Did I need to replace the hard drive? Do I need a different os install disk? It should also be noted that it’s a very old laptop (I think circa 2004) so I have also been wondering if perhaps the dvd drive is faulty or can’t read the disk that the os install is on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
The gray disk are machine specific. Your MacBook Pro uses a higher operating system than your PowerBook will take. Call Apple, with your serial number, and order a replacement installation disk for $15. The 17" 1.5 GHz has this: Pre-Installed MacOS: X 10.3.3 Maximum MacOS: X 10.5.8 Or you can get a retail version of a system installation disk: http://fastmac.com/osx.php
Are you holding down the “c” key when you start it up with the os install cd in the optical drive? You have to do this for it to boot into the install disk.
im getting the same and my optical ios fine i tried a dvd movie and it workt great
I have change the hhd and optical drive when I try to put restar-nvram ok Set-default. Bad default ok what it does mean
