PowerBook G4 + New Hard drive

[mobobuff]

What I have:

1. New 80GB Hitachi Travelstar 2.5" laptop hard drive (model HTS548080M9AT00)
2. Apple PowerBook G4
3. Mac OS X ver. 2.2 installation CD.

What I need to do:

1. Install hard drive (done).
2. Install OS X on that hard drive (attempted and failed).
3. Have the laptop and new hard drive with new install of OS X coexist harmoniously.


So, am I completely retarded and there's some line I've crossed and this can't be done? When I get to the Select Volume part of the installation CD it shows only the CD (read-only) and not the hard drive. I'm assuming this is because of the following (either or both): The drive is not formatted as HFS; or the drive does not have Apple firmware. So, how the heck do I get around this? I need this to work!

If it helps, I also have...

OS 9 installation CD
MacDrive 5.0 (on my Windows system)
HFS-Utils (on my Windows system)
A non-functional IBM Travelstar 60G w/ Apple firmware

Also, it's probably obvious, but I'm pretty much a n00b with Macs. I only worked with Panther on the 800Mhz eMacs last year designing newspaper layouts, so I'm pretty familiar with the basics of the OS, but beyond that I'm a lost man. Laptop internals I know pretty well.

Help me! Please! I love you!

 

[n0cmonkey]

If you boot off the cd, you should have an option to initialize the disk. That's what you want to do. It's been too long for me to remember where that option is though. Google! 😛

 

[Wahsapa]

try finding somebody with a powermac and get a 40 to 44 pin ide adapter and try to format and do all that goodness to the drive outside of the powerbook and then pop it in the pb. if thats to much try booting from a firewire drive onto mac os x from there check out the options and see what you can do to the drive.

also try arstechnicas mac forum, they might be able to help you more

i was thinking about picking up a powerbook and dropping one of thoes new 100gig toshibas in but reading about your issues im having second thoughts.

 

[Jigglelicious]

If you goto the top menu bar, there should be a "drive/disc utility" option when trying to install OSX. This will let you format the disc so that it will appear under the volumes section of the installation.

 

[addragyn]

jiggle's got it.

there are pics at this link - http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_osx.html

 

[mobobuff]

There is no disk utility option in any of the menus. Maybe I should try installing OS 9 and then upgrading.

 

[addragyn]

When you boot from the OS X install disc it's available from the menu on the top right corner. It will appear in a seperate window from the install.

 

[mobobuff]

Hmmm... guess I didn't look at the top right corner much... I'm at work now, I'll hafta click around up there when I get home. I knew there was a disk utility on the CD but I couldn't figure out how to access it. Thank you again.

 

[imported_Phil]

Try installing Darwin (search for it on Apple's site), that works with PearPC (Mac emulator for the PC) in setting up & formatting the hard disk file so that osX can install on it.