[G4] Hard Drive upgrade in a G4 QS

Trinzitter Sanwick trinzitter at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 20 06:45:33 PST 2006


Amy,
	When you formatted the new drive, were you careful to check that  
"Install Mac OS 9 Disk Driver" was checked?  The old OS will not boot  
without having that driver on the hard drive.

  - Tony

On 20-Dec-06, at 6:59 AM, Amy Morris wrote:

> This machine was previously set up to start in OS 9.2 and it did so  
> for years. As soon as I changed the hard drive and tried to  
> reinstall the operating systems I ran into the difficulty. I'm  
> working on this machine for someone else.
>
> nagable at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> I have always had trouble starting my QS 2002 in Classic.  Classic  
>> runs fine alongside all the OS X versions, but only on rare  
>> occasions was I able to force a startup in OS 9.  I had to do it  
>> when i installed the processor upgrade (Sonnet dual 1.8 GHz).  I  
>> managed it by reinstalling 9.2.2.  I don't know why you would need  
>> to start up on 9 when it runs side by side with OS X anyway.
>>
>> nate
>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: Amy Morris <edit at ejourney.com>



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