New iMac 233 Hard Drive

mikey53 · #1 05-13-2005, 06:01 PM

I put an 80gb Seagate hard drive into an iMac 233. I was able to fromat the drive and partition it so tha I have a 4gb and two other partitons. I was able to install OS 9 but have been unable to boot to the new 4gb drive. I am only able to boot with the OS disk and cannot change the start up disk. I AM BAFFLED I have never had this much trouble with any Mac like this. Help!!

**Alex** · #2 05-14-2005, 08:29 AM

With some older Macs, the boot partition must be within the first 8 GB of the drive. This is a firmware limitation and cannot be overridden. Where is the 4 GB partition located?

**Mikef** · #3 05-15-2005, 04:58 AM

Another option is that the new System folder has not been blessed. when you boot from CDR does the System folder on the hard disk have a smiley face icon? If not double click on the folder to open it then close the folder - it should now have a smiley face icon.

Mike

mikey53 · #4 05-16-2005, 06:03 PM

Thanks for the tip, but it does have the smiley mac on the System Folder and it still will not boot up into OS9 except with the CD.

**Mikef** · #5 05-17-2005, 01:55 PM

Well I can only assume Alex's comment applies. Sorry to say that although I have up to five hard disk's connected to this Mac ranging from 60Gbyte to 250Gbyte I've never felt the need to partition them. I find folders provide far more flexibility and the risk of a hard disk failure is the same.
I regret my only suggestion is to re-install the OS on an unpartitioned disk, if that works then partition and re-install on each partition ubtil one works.
Tedious but you shoud get a result.

Mike