[G4] new Dual startup disk woes

Lee ratman at cq.net
Tue Apr 8 13:12:25 PDT 2003


Melissa,

I'm sure one of the disks says "System Restore". Just boot with that 
disk and you will find one of the options is to erase the hard drive 
and start completely fresh.

Lee

On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 02:56 PM, Melissa Crowe wrote:

> Hi All,
> I just got my new Dual 1gig G4, and I want to reformat the drive, but 
> lo and behold, in the collection of CDs that came with the computer, 
> there does not seem to be a single one to use as a startup disk in 
> order to get this done! I am losing it. In fact, I guess I don't even 
> know how to reformat a disk in OS X. Do I have to startup from my OS 9 
> disk to do this? How annoying.
> Help!
> Melisssa



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