How to erase internal hard drive

I want to erase completly my internal hard drive max os 10.5.8 please show me the steps. thank you

1. Reset the PRAM > Resetting your Mac's PRAM
2. Try cleaning the DVD drive with a Lens Cleaning Disc.
3. Check the Snow Leopard DVD, is it cleal and scratch free?
4. Make sure that you have a clean and stratch free install DVD.
5. Only a white Retail Snow Leopard Install DVD will work with your iMac.
(a gray system DVD will only work for the iMac that it came with)

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How big a internal hard drive can I install in a G5 Powermac

Model Name:          Power Mac G5
Model Identifier:          PowerMac11,2
Processor Name:          PowerPC G5 (1.0)
Processor Speed:          2 GHz
Number Of CPUs:          2
L2 Cache (per CPU):          1 MB
Memory:          4.5 GB
Bus Speed:          1 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          5.2.7f1
How big a internal hard drive can I install in a G5 Powermac

2.1 TB for certain & some 3 TB drives work if Partitioned to less than 2.1 TB but then it must be GUID instead of APM, most important is if it is SATA I 1.5Gb/sec compatible.

How to partition internal hard drive

I have a G5 Tower with 10.4.11 installed on an internal hard drive with a single partition. In order to partition the drive I have booted from the installation disk, opened Disk Utility, and was surprised to not see an option to partition the hard drive. I think that this has worked in the past but it's not working now.
How can I can partition my internal hard drive? I understand that I will need to reinstall the operating system after I do.
John Link

Well, in 10.4.11 Disk Utility you can only Partition if you erase everything!
But others that may work…
Drive Genius 2…
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius.php
iPartition...
http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php
And, are you sure you want to partition it? How big is the drive and how much free space do you have?

How to Erase Old Hard Drive?

I use a G4 QuickSilver 2002; run 10.5.8 Leopard. How do I completely erase a hard drive and make it ready to install as a Master HD in another G4 QuickSilver 2002?

Thank you very much for your assistance, Klaus1!!:)

How to replace internal Hard Drive on iMac G5 iSight 1.9GHz

Hello everyone,
The internal hard drive of my iMac has died (apparently), and is no longer detectable by Disk Utility. It occasionally makes a "click/tick" sound so I know it's still spinning inside. I currently am booted up from an external firewire drive with Tiger (10.4.11) installed.
I have been attempting to locate a service manual that shows how to open the case to my 17" iMac G5 iSight 1.9GHz model. I have found a service manual from the previous generation iMac G5 NON-iSight models, but the bottom access panel and screw locations differ from my iMac.
I have purchased an internal 500GB Seagate 7200.12 replacement drive.
Does anyone know where I can find a manual with pictures showing how to disassemble this particular iMac so I can install the new hard drive?

Ticking is a death rattle for drives and below are some helpful sites with pix.
http://www.kodawarisan.com/imacintel/imacintel01.html
http://xlr8yourmac.com/systems/imacisight_internals/imac_g5_isightinside.html
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgL9u7ySUk
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=fI_QmBueWg4&feature=related
The reason Apple don't publish pix of the insides of the iSight is that they say that there are no user serviceable parts.

How to upgrade internal hard drive

Hi. I have a MBP that came with a 250GB internal hard drive. The hard drive model name is "FUJITSU MJA2250BH FFS G1 Media". I would like to upgrade to a 500GB internal hard drive. How do I do this? Do I have to take the laptop back to an Apple store and have it done there?
Thank you

I just upgraded my MBP 15" internal drive. Bought a DIY kit from OWC, took less than 30 minutes, very easy. DIY kit includes the drive, tools needed plus an external enclosure from which you can clone your current drive to the new one prior to replacing. Instruction video on OWC web site walks you through the details in a very easy step by step process.
Matt

How to erase a hard drive on a i MAC Power PC with OSX 10.5.8 pre-intel?

I got this i Mac G5 Power PC with a 20" screen (no iSight) and last generation of i Mac repaired. Capacitors and a power supply did revive my machine and it works fine. I would like to donate my machine and want to erase the hard drive and make sure that all my personal data is gone.
I have the Leopard disk and I am told that if I booth my machine with the disk while holding the C key then I can go to Disk Utility and erase my hard drive.
Does anyone have a step-by-step approach to guide me through this?
Any help will be most appreciated!
Thank you,
Guy

Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive.

How to repair internal hard drive failure?

Well so I have a new mac book pro 13 with retina and the internal hard drive just disappear after doing a time machine backup. When I turn it on it comes the Recovery 10.10.1 disk and just that, normally you could do a hard drive partition like ''Macintosh HD'' from the internal hard drive that is like ''500GB toshiba blah blah'' something like that, but the thing is that in disk Utility the only thing I see is ''Macintosh HD'' and no internal drive, and also when you select it and you go to the Partition tab everything is grayed out, btw there is just two tabs the partiton one and the first aid one? I don't care if i lose the data on my hard drive because it was new. what should I do?

H. In the disk utilities the base system drive that you see is the recovery partition. You should be seeing above the base drive two other drives .One is the main drive, that should name the drive and it's size as in 250 G The one directly below that is the partitioned drive that the operating system is on. Clicking on the upper drive should show down at the bottom right as GUID and should say S.M.A.R.T status verified. Try starting up by holding down the option or the option r key and see if you go to the recovery partition. Which should have option for disk utilities terminal and recovery and I believe internet.

How to access internal hard drive with screen not working

Veteran Mac user from Spain,
I am a graphic designer and i have a MacBook Pro 17 inch Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz (Santa Rosa) which i purchased in October of 2007 along with a 23 inch Apple Cinema HD Display Monitor which i have hooked up to my MacBook when i am working at home. About 2 months ago the right hand ventilator started making a very loud noise but because i had a lot work on i did not have time to send it away to be fixed. Then about a month ago the fan stopped working and i was very concerned that my MacBook was going to overheat but to my surprise the temperature never rose above 60 degrees, so i continued to work and every thing seemed to be okay. But a couple of weeks ago i was online and the computer suddenly froze up and when i restarted it all i got was a black screen on both the MacBook and the Cinema Display Monitor. The hard disk seems to boot correctly and the keyboard on the MacBook also is responsive (volume, brightness controls, caps/number lock, etc… are all responsive and the retroilumination on the keyboard also works). So on reading up on the forums i discovered that the graphics card NVIDIA 8600M GT is in fact faulty. I called apple and explained the problem and they told me that i will also have to replace the logic board.
On discovering the problem i realised that it would take a while to be fixed and i would need another Mac to continue working. So last week last week i purchased a Mac Mini and hooked it up to my Cinema Display and everything is working fine, BUT i desperately need to access my work folder on my MacBook's internal drive.
Can anybody tell me how to transfer the files from my MacBook (late 2007) to my Mac Mini without the screen working on my MacBook?
If it helps, my MacBook is running Leopard 10.5.8 and the Mac Mini is running Lion 10.7.2. The Mac Mini has an Intel i5 processor 2.3 GHz.
I would really appreciate the help, it is very urgent and i need to find a very quick solution, clients depend on it.

Thank you very much for your swift response.
I am going to try the second option that you propose because as i mentioned in my first post, i had my MacBook Pro hooked up to my Apple Cinema HD Display monitor and both screens were black.
Just one question…
Will the hard drive need an extrenal power source?
I am guessing that it will use the Mac Mini's power supply but i just want to make sure.
Thanks again! You have been most helpful.

IMac G5 10.3 Upgrade to 10.5 How to erase the hard drive with no 10.3 disc

Working on my brother's computer. iMac G5 (no iSight) was running 10.3.11. He tried to do an upgrade to 10.4 along with a RAM upgrade. When he totally hosed it up, he turned it over to me and now wants to upgrade to 10.5. I obtained a retail version of 10.5 and was able to install it but I can't configure it because the old 10.3 Sys Admin is still in there somewhere. Brother has lost password and lost 10.3 start up disc. Can I just wipe the entire hard drive (most info is corrupted anyway) and start over clean with 10.5? If so, how do I accomplish that without the old install disc? Thanks for any help! I'm fairly desperate and pretty sick of tangling with this problem.

Richard, thank you so much for your advice. I will try that first thing tomorrow morning when I'm "fresh". I think the hard drive is fine. I already ran the verify and repair routine. My brother thought he could do all of this himself. I told him to install his upgrade first, then his hardware (RAM stick). Well, he installed the RAM first. Then assumed that something was wrong with the Software when it wouldn't load. Very long story short, one of the 1GB RAM chips was bad. As soon as I took it out, everything was fine. But he did something Very Bad while trying to do the upgrade and I just can't recreate what he did, not to mention how many other people were involved before he called me (and I'm far from an expert!). The Genius Bar at my local Apple store recommended erasing and starting over with the 10.5, but then everything I read on line said I had to have the 10.3 install disc. I bought a MAC when I retired from corporate America so I wouldn't have to do this type of thing any more. My MAC never gives me one bit of trouble. But I speak to it kindly every day and coo in its ears! I'll let you know how it works out! Thanks again. --Pam.

How to erase all hard drive

I want to format a new hard drive only. Can give some steps? Thanks.

Google has many many how to's on this. Here is just one:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2063795_format-hard-drive-mac-os.html

How big a internal hard drive can I replace in my macbook pro 160/sd. I had a 750 in but it died. Can I put a 1TB?

I have a MacBook Pro 13.3 inch from 2010. It came with 160/SD. I replaced it 3 years ago with a 750GB Seagate which just died per Apple genius. BUt, need to replace it now. Can I replace with a 1TB or only another 750GB?

it will hold even a 12.5mm thick 1.5TB HD
most 1TB drives are 9.5mm thick
It will NOT however hold a 15.2mm HD.
Typical bare 2.5" hard drives. 7mm left (250-500gig), 9.5mm right (500gig-1TB), and 15.2mm 4 platter drive at back (2TB)

How to unlock internal Hard drive for other user

i have fast user switching set, and i can log on to that user's desktop. however, when i try to start iTunes, i get a message that says the hard disk is locked. So iTunes won't open. I had set a whole bunch of songs for this user, but now can't seem to open itunes. It's a power PC (not intel), and software is all up to date (it was after the last upgrade that this may have happened.
BTW, onthe get info pop up, i unlocked the drive and set the priveledges for the HD to read and write, but still get the locked HD message when opeing iTunes.
Any suggestions?

Well i appreciate your help. Two followups to report.
1. i just made a new account and imported the old itunes music. This worked, so i deleted the old account.
2. now for the bad news. When i tried to restart the computer, it just freezes after lighting up the screen. then after about 3 min, the fan starts blowing full steam. Sounds bad based on past experience. So i'm off to the genius bar tonite and hope the HD and backup HD are still OK.
Thanks again.

How large can an internal hard drive be on a Mac Pro part #ZOD8 ?

How large can an internal hard drive be on a Mac Pro part #ZOD8 ?

Mac Pro tower can support drives up to 4TB is size.
If running 10.8.4, 10.8.5 or 10.9.0, there is a bug in Disk Utility that precludes proper erasing of drives over 2.2TB as Internal drives

The internal hard drive on my early 2009 24" iMac is nearly full. How do I add an external drive so that it functions just like the internal drive on the iMac?

The internal hard drive on my early 2009 24" iMac is nearly full. I have already worked to free as much space on the HD as possible. How do I add an external HD and have the iMac read it as though it was part of the internal HD. I know about external HD for additional storage and I do have an external HD, but, it is so much easier to search the drive when it is internal than having to perform a search on the internal drive and then a search on the external drives. And, it is easier to save files to an internal drive so that I don't have to decide which external drive to use to save files. In other words, I want to add an external HD and have it function as though I had purchased a larger internal HD.

That is simply not possible. Every drive is a separate device. It cannot be used to extend an internal drive as though you had a seamlessly larger drive.
What you can do is to create a striped RAID array using the internal drive and an external drive. However, doing this will erase the internal drive and you will lose everything on the internal drive. Furthermore, installing Lion or Mountain Lion becomes a bit of a problem because you cannot create a Recovery HD on a RAID and this tends to make the installer choke. However, you can clone an existing Lion or Mountain Lion system to the RAID and designate the RAID as a startup volume.
I would not recommend the RAID solution, personally, but there are many who do. I prefer the basic solution of spending the money on a larger internal hard drive instead of an external hard drive.
RAID Basics
For basic definitions and discussion of what a RAID is and the different types of RAIDs see RAIDs. Additional discussions plus advantages and disadvantages of RAIDs and different RAID arrays see:
RAID Tutorial;
RAID Array and Server: Hardware and Service Comparison.
Hardware or Software RAID?
RAID Hardware Vs RAID Software - What is your best option?
RAID is a method of combining multiple disk drives into a single entity in order to improve the overall performance and reliability of your system. The different options for combining the disks are referred to as RAID levels. There are several different levels of RAID available depending on the needs of your system. One of the options available to you is whether you should use a Hardware RAID solution or a Software RAID solution.
RAID Hardware is always a disk controller to which you can cable up the disk drives. RAID Software is a set of kernel modules coupled together with management utilities that implement RAID in Software and require no additional hardware.
Pros and cons. Software RAID is more flexible than Hardware RAID. Software RAID is also considerably less expensive. On the other hand, a Software RAID system requires more CPU cycles and power to run well than a comparable Hardware RAID System. Also, because Software RAID operates on a partition by partition basis where a number of individual disk partitions are grouped together as opposed to Hardware RAID systems which generally group together entire disk drives, Software RAID tends be slightly more complicated to run. This is because it has more available configurations and options. An added benefit to the slightly more expensive Hardware RAID solution is that many Hardware RAID systems incorporate features that are specialized for optimizing the performance of your system.
For more detailed information on the differences between Software RAID and Hardware RAID you may want to read: Hardware RAID vs. Software RAID: Which Implementation is Best for my Application?

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