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Hello, I have G5 quad (dual, dualcore). I have seen a lot of questions and answers about this machine on a lot of boards. It seems to be a quirky machine for being a Mac. I bought it used from a remarketing firm and it was previously owned by and Audio Guy. When he turned the machine back in at end of lease he removed his hard drive. This is common for these situations as I have been involved in many. Now, I have been a PC guy for years but have owned enough Macs to get me in trouble only. I had a 750 gig SATA drive that fit right in there with the help of the extra bubble head screws Mac provides near the drive area. I hooked it up and checked all cables. I hooked the Mac monitor up and lit off off! Of course it did nothing but show me an Apple on screen then a flashing folder with a question mark. This did not surprise me. I looked through all my Mac stuff and could only find OS9 and a G5 OS 10.37. it would not see OS9 at all and when holding down the shift key it sees the 10.37 early Leopard disk but would not see a hard drive to install it to. If I clicked on the DVD disk it goes Apple screen then a circle with a line through it. A friend just came over with his Mac Pro Op system and it is 10.5.2 and it actually for the first time saw the disk and started the spinning wheel!! then it said you can not install this software on this computer! I was able to use disk utilities and check my 750 gig drive and it was all green and said to be good. Yet by holding the shift key down shouldn’t it show up as a usable disk to install to??? Is it that I need a specific disk “ONLY” go install on this thing? I am pulling my hair out and I don’t have that much to spare! Any help would be amazing!! thanks, Bruce
Well Markus has totally baffled me with his IBM lingo. Your problem as I see it, is that you do not have retail system 10 installation disk. The gray ones can be machine specific and will not work on other machines. The exception is the eMac installations disks and sometimes the iMac disks. For confirmation on the installation disks that will work for you contact Darlene at Fastmac. Here’s what the disks look like and prices for same.http://fastmac.com/osx.php
did you partitioned the hdd with the 10.5.2 disc ? and if so - what settings did you use (especially - what options did you select in the partitioning menu)??? maybe the hdd has still a mbr and that would not work with a regular leopard dvd
