[CUBE] My new Hard Drive

[J.C. Webber III]

JwD wrote:
> Greetings:  I've followed the groups advice over time and now I have a
> problem to ask about.
> 
> An "expert" (not from this Cube List) suggested that I could install a new
> Hard drive by just installing it and booting it up, using my latest OS CD.
> 
> I've had No luck doing so. After trying it with a new 120Gg. HD, I brought
> the Drive down to my local Apple dealer and asked them to format it with Mac
> extended format. They tried and said it was a bad drive.
> 
> I exchanged it for another... still won't boot from my OS CD.
> 
> What now? I'm starting to get more money tied-up in mail, insurance, and the
> local dealer- then I spent on the new Hard Drive.

I saw someone recommending that you set the drive to 'master', but
if you have the add-on DVD superdrive from MCE, it's hardwired to be
the 'master' so I found that I had to set my hard drive to 'slave'.

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J.C. Webber III       
Technical Lead, Unix System Administrator
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