80 GB unformatted. straight out of the factory Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm

I own a BRAND NEW seagate HD and i was wondering if i could Mac Format it and put it in my Mac:
iMac
333 MHz
6 GB HD
92 MB RAM
Mac OS X 10.1.x
Tray Loading
24x CD-ROM
No Firewire
Classic Environment Does not work
Any Comments would be helpful!

Hey, almost the same topic question as another poster...
Yes, that should work fine. If you have an external drive case with USB, it would be useful. Even if the USB is slow on the G3 iMac, it will allow you do to the "cloning" process to replicate your current drive. If you are planning to get one for this purpose, you may want to pay a little more to get an external case with both Firewire and USB 2.0. That way, you can use it on other Macs with Firewire (or on a PC with USB 2.0)
Important Note: Your model iMac has a limitation in the IDE controller (or its driver) that requires the startup volume to fit within the first 8GB of disk space. This issue is explained here, with the solution.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25249
Based on my experience, you need to make that first partition 7.8 GB or smaller. The second partition can be any size, and you can further partition the remaining space. Note that the 8GB limit exists only during the startup process. Once control is handed off to the OS, there is no limit and the IDE controller will recognize up to 128 GB. Choose HFS+ as the format type when you partition.
Classic Environment Does not work
Hopefully you can get that resolved after the hard drive upgrade. Using a new fast hard drive with a big cache, you will notice a substantial performance increase. For $30-40, you can give it a 256MB memory boost
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?model=61&type=Memory&TI=3554&shoupg rds=Show+Upgrades
Classic probably does not work because of lack of RAM.

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