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Hello loyal Mac users-
I recently purchased a new MacPro Dual 2.3 and transferred my data from my old G5 Dual 1.8 via setup assistant. That all when according to plan with no loss of data, sweet feature I have to say with the new OS.
As a general rule we shuffle around someone's older Mac to an employee that has an older one than your previous one. That means a clean reformat and a new system. So my fellow coworker will upgrade from his G4 to my G5. The problem is with the old G5, I went to reinstall the system with the original disk and the "install" pop up window sits there with the progress bar stuck. The fans slowly rev up to a point where it almost starts to lift off my desk. As a workaround I set the G5 in target mode connected to my new MacPro, ran disk utlity and wrote zeros to the drive. Formatted it as Mac OS Extended (journaled) and everything reformatted just fine. I then went to startup the G5 with the original disk and the same "install" popup window appears with a static progress bar and screaming fans. So, I have a boxed version of 10.3 in the office and tried to startup from that hoping to reinstall that way and I get a static solid blue screen. I have also tried to reinstall from target mode via the MacPro and I get a message that 10.3 cannot be installed on this machine. I can't even get far enough into the process to select a destination.
I have ran the hardware test on the G5 and there were NO problems.
Can anyone shed some light on this????

Hi Again RZDZ!
See My Reply, in your other Topic OS 10.4 won't install on G5DP.
Good Luck!
ali b

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