Install disc won't see harddrive

Anyone who saw my last few points knows that my wonderful internal harddrive failed and i was forced to replace it. Just installed new harddrive (yes, correctly) and when i go to install software it doesn't see my harddrive. disk utility sees it, but it can't select it for repair. please help!

What partition type did you use? It needs to be "Apple partition" for the PPC computers and GUID for Intels. I should probably have mentioned that before...sorry. But at least you are getting closer since the drive is recognized. What you need to do is delete the partition and make a new one being sure to use "Apple Partition" and format it as an OSX Extended (Journaled) partition. Then the installer should run.

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I'm trying to upgrade from 10.4.11 to 10.5. When I'm booted up from the install disc, my main hard drive doesn't show up as an option to install onto. My secondary internal hard drive shows up, as well as my firewire drive. What's the deal? Thanks-Karen

Try going into Disk Utility and see if you disk pops up. If not restart your mac and hold the "c" key. If that does not work go to the Apple Store.

Install disc won't re-install Leopard on my Macbook

So, I recently upgraded my Hard Drive in my Macbook. After I upgraded, I thought it would be cool to have Windows XP on my Mac also. So I partition 20 gb of my Hard Drive off for XP. I ran boot camp to install XP and I kept getting an error. This left me with an empty partition of 20 gb on my Hard Drive. I read many posts on here and I decided that the best thing to do was to re-install Leopard completely and start over, fresh and clean. Well, I put my Leopard install disc into my dvd drive, and when the install starts up, I get an error message that says, "Mac OS X can not be installed on this drive." Also, the install disc will not eject, even before the install starts. My hard drive is completely blank right now, and I have no idea why my install disc won't work. What should I do?

Open Disk Utility again (from the installer DVD), click on the drive's name as described in the previous post, & click the blue "i" button to get the disk's info. Copy that to a reply in this thread so we can see it. Or just note the "Partition Map Scheme" info, which should say "GUID Partition Table."
If not, you did not succeed in repartitioning it, perhaps because you did not click the "Apply" button or something.
If so, make sure you are using the installer disk that came with the MacBook & not some other model-specific installer disk.
BTW, you can never eject the DVD if you have started up the MacBook from it, so that much is normal behavior. To eject the DVD, you must restart from some other boot volume.

Just bought new PC running Windows 8.1. I have Install discs for Photoshop 4 and an upgrade to Photoshop 7. Unfortunately the Photoshop 4 Install disc won't run as it's incompatible with 64 bit. How do I install Photoshop 7 on my new PC? Is there a place

Just bought new PC running Windows 8.1. I have Install discs for Photoshop 4 and an upgrade to Photoshop 7. Unfortunately the Photoshop 4 Install disc won't run as it's incompatible with 64 bit. How do I install Photoshop 7 on my new PC? Is there a place I can download the Install files from?

Pagemaker is ancient, obsolete and unsupported. It was discontinued over 10 years ago. (Though why it is still sold is a mystery.)
If you want to run PageMaker, your best bet is to use a Win2K or WinXP PC.
Otherwise move to Indesign or look at Serif's PagePlus or Scribus.

Original install disc won't work!

Hey all, I am trying to take my eMac back down to OSX 10.2, which is the original OSX that it came with when I bought it. It had tiger on it and I can not get the original install disc to boot when I try and do a restart while pressing "C". On startup, it goes to the screen that says "You computer needs to be restarted, press your on button for several seconds". So, I just used DBAN to completely wipe the HD, hoping that would help it, since maybe it was having trouble since tiger was still on there. The HD is now completely wiped blank and the disc still won't mount. I put in my Leopard disc just to see if that would work and it booted right up and was ready to start installing. Why won't the original disc work? The disc looks brand new, there are no scratches or anything like that on it. Any ideas? Thanks for any input!

I'd need to check notes i don't have with me at the moment, but if I recall correctly, part of the update from 10.2 to 10.4 on an eMac involved a firmware update, which could be why you can't boot to the 10.2 disc anymore.
Most OS 9 programs run fine under OS X 10.4 using Classic. You could try reinstalling 10.4, then put OS 9 on from your original 10.2 set of discs; the exact steps will depend on just which version of the discs you actually got. See e.g. OS X: How to Perform Mac OS 9 Clean Install and Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3: How to perform Mac OS 9 clean installation with Restore CDs

Leopard Install Disc won't restart into installer.

I have a G5 quad core and am trying to install Leopard from my family pack installation disc. My superdrive is malfunctioning and will not accept any discs (spins as though it's loading, clicks and tries again, only to spit the disc back out). I purchased an external DVDRW drive by USB quite a while ago because of this. I put the disc in, I can double click to install, it asks me to restart and on restarting it loads right back to asking me for my password. I have tried holding down "c" on restart and the Install Disc never shows up. I have tried holding down "option" on restart and only my hard drive shows up. I tried to load from another computer that I have assuming to share it's drive, but when holding "option" on restart it doesn't give me an option to pick a network.
I'm Lost, Please Advise! Thanks.

A PPC such as your G5 will not boot from a USB connection. However assuming that the other computer has a FireWire port, you can probably "borrow" its DVD drive to install Leopard, even if the other computer is an Intel. You will need an appropriate FireWire cable that can connect the two computers.
I would try the following:
Shut down the G5. Insert the Leopard DVD into the other computer, and restart the other computer while holding down the T key, booting the other computer into [FireWire Target Disk Mode|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661] . Connect it to the G5 and then start the G5 while holding down the Option key. This should boot the G5 into the startup manager, and hopefully you will see the Leopard OS X install DVD as one of the startup choices. Select that, and proceed with the Leopard installation. Be sure you pick the correct "Macintosh HD" (the G5's HD!) for the install.

Leopard Install Disc Won't Mount on PowerMac G4

I'm having problems installing Leopard and am looking for advice. My internal DVD reader won't mount the installation disc - this has been a long-standing issue with my DVD drive: it can read some DVDs but not others. This is only the second time I've had trouble reading an actual Apple-manufactured DVD, though. (The first time, it was iLife - I eventually got around the problem by using a third-party DVD drive to install iLife, and that worked fine.) This time, though, while trying to install Leopard from the external DVD drive, the installation failed halfway through. This happened twice in a row, and I had to go back to my original system discs that came with the computer and reinstall the original system (10.2) in order to get my computer working again.
Now, I have two questions that arise from this. One, is this DVD-reading problem on my internal drive something that can be fixed with a Firmware update or something? I've searched without success. Or does the drive have to be replaced completely?
Second, is the problem with trying to install from the external DVD drive likely to be an issue with the Leopard install disc being a dual layer disc (if it is - I have no idea), and maybe the reason it fails halfway through is because my external DVD drive is only able to read one layer of the DVD? Or am I completely barking up the wrong tree with this one? Is it just a bad idea to try and install from an external DVD drive, full stop?
Colour me baffled! Any advice gratefully received.

I do not know for sure, but as the Leopard install DVD has a capacity of over 7GB it may well be a dual-layer DVD.
Assuming your G4 PowerMac otherwise meets the minimum requirements for Leopard (867 MHz or faster, 512 MB memory, 9GB free space on hard drive, etc.) it is possible there is a flaw in the DVD. When you attempted to install did the installer successfully verify the DVD? You could try using Disk Utility to verify the DVD.
You might consider a new internal DVD drive. I had to replace the optical drive in my G5 when it failed. They are quite reasonably priced here: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/powermac/
Do you have an external FireWire hard drive? Did you attempt to install Leopard on that drive?

Help! OS X Install disc does not see my HD.

After receiving the error discussed here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2229361#2229361
I attempted to boot from my 10.4 install disc and re-install OS X. I was going to do an erase and install as my important files are already backed up. However, when I got to the Select a Destination stage of the install process, my HD is not displayed at all. I had JUST backed up the last files I thought I'd want and restarted to this problem. Now, unless I boot with the install disc, nothing happens. I just get gray screen. Has anyone ever heard of this? Thank you!

Tim,
Did you try to "Repair Disk"??? If not, try to repair it. I could not repair my HD with DU, which is why I chose to use DiskWarrior.
Looks like you're getting the same result I was but without the error code (9972). There may be a difference in seriousness in getting the numeric code and not. I do not know that to be true or not.
From my experience of the last few days, I would try this only because it DID WORK for me.
I don't know what version of DiskWarrior you have access to, but if is version 3, then you can download the update and they include a wizard to make a fresh bootable CD which includes all of the updated code. And this new code is what will make your repair happen. So, check out the version of the DW disk you have, then go to the Alsoft website and download the update which is free. Free may depend on what version you have.
Having done that, then you can boot from your new DW CD and repair your Directory which is what I did this afternoon. When done, run Disk Utility from your OS X DVD, and check your Permissions and Verify Disk. When I did this, all of my problems had been repaired, so I would expect you will have the same success as I did.
Now, if all of the above went well, you can then select to Install from your OS DVD and you should see your HD icon.
One step at a time. Good luck. Keep me posted.
17 PowerBook, 1.33 Ghz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 2 GB Ram

OS install disc won't boot

I've got a 2007 15" Macbook Pro (MacBookPro3,1, Boot ROM version MBP31.0070.B07) which is currently running Lion and aside from the battery flaking out occasionally, it runs fine. I'm trying to install Leopard on it for testing purposes (I work in IT, and we try to have one machine running every version of every OS we support). When I try to start up using the "Mac OS X Install Disc 1" that came with the machine, it just spits the disc back out. This disk has Tiger (10.4), and the machine came with a "CPU upgrade" to 10.5. I've also tried booting to 10.5.4 and 10.6 retail discs with same result.
So, my best guess is that at some point, whether by a firmware upgrade or installing Lion, I've lost the ability to install any version of OS X OLDER than Lion. I can't seem to find any documentation for either firmware updates or Lion to support or disprove this assumption, though.

Well in order to install Snow Leopard you will need a partition for that if you also want to keep 10.7 on the machine, you use the 10.7 Disk Uitity to create a new partiton on the drive, then option key boot (wired or built in keyboards only) from the 10.6 disk and install in there.
If you want to wipe and install only 10.6, the entire internal drive needs to be erased (hold option or c key boot off the 10.6 and use Disk Ulility, select the entire drive), then install 10.6.
The 10.6.3 white retail disk should still work unless it's defective, smudged, dirty etc or unless it's a gray or black disk from another Mac, then it won't work.
However it is possible Apple did send a firmware update down the pipe that won't allow booting of earlier OS X verisons, they did that with 10.4 and 10.5 supposedly.
Unless you didn't upgrade the EFI firmware or have a older copy to revert too, Apple won't provide older EFI versions on their website, only the newer ones.
It's possible in some magic way to extract the EFI firmware off the 10.6 disks and then create a EFI boot disk installer that will install the older EFI verisons, but I haven't explored that possibility.
Far as I'm concerned, Apple can keep their Lions and their machines, I'm not going along with them anymore if they continue on their ******** path.

Install disc won't load?

I'm trying to re-install the OS on a MacBook Pro that i'm selling so as to erase all my data from it, however the Install Disc will not start up to run the Installer. I load it, press install, it says it has to Restart, i click ok and it then begins to restart but then just stops at a white screen. The disc drive goes quiet as well. I've tried just starting and holding C down as well. Same result.
Just wondering if anyone knows a way around this? Or is it probably a dodgy disc? It seems to be fine until it tries to start up from the disc.

Clean the disk with a very soft cloth and a bit of rubbing alcohol, polish.
Hold c or option key with a wired keyboard with the disk in and rebooting the machine, it should work.
The only time it won't work if it's the wrong disk for that computer, it's possible with 10.5 Apple may have updated the firmware so one can't boot off the 10.5 disks, boot off the 10.6 disk instead.
Call Apple for replacement machine specific disks with the free iLife if 10.6 or later, if 10.5 or earlier, order the 10.6.3 retail disks at Apple, no free iLife.
Use Disk Utility under the Utilities menu to Erase W/Zero (or 7x if your paranoid and willing to wait many hours) the entire drive before installing OS X.
Once OS X is installed it will reboot to Welcome Video, just shutdown and it will stay like that.

Mac OS X install disc won't run

In Disk Utility, it says that 'Volume Bitmap needs minor repairs' so I need to repair volume. In order for me to repair it in Disk utility I have to start up from the install disc but upon inserting it into the cd drive of my powerbook G4, it fails to run and ejects it after about a minute.
What shall I do?
thanks.

Hi nebula32, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Tough without the Install disc or something like DiskWarrior, but some things to try...
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s keys at bootup, if so try...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Tough without the Tiger Disk problems, but try fsck...
To use fsck, you must run it from the command line. Unlike using your mouse to open an application to do something, you'll need to type a text command at the prompt (#) to tell fsck what to do. The Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities) and single-user mode are two examples of command-line interfaces in which you can type such commands. To use fsck:
1. Start up your computer in single-user mode to reach the command line. Hold CMD+s keys down at bootup. Note: If necessary, perform a forced restart as described in the Emergency Troubleshooting Handbook that came with your computer. On desktop computers, you can do this by pressing the reset/interrupt button (if there is one) or holding down the power button for several seconds. On portable computers, simultaneously press the Command-Control-power keys. If your portable computer doesn't restart with this method, you may need to reset the Power Manager.
2. At the command-line prompt, type /sbin/fsck -fy
(SPACE between fsck AND -fy important)
3. Press Return. fsck will go through five "phases" and then return information about your disk's use and fragmentation. Once it finishes, it'll display this message if no issue is found: 
The volume (nameofvolume) appears to be OK  If fsck found issues and has altered, repaired, or fixed anything, it will display this message: *** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***   Important: If this message appears, repeat the fsck command you typed in step 2 until fsck tells you that your volume appears to be OK (first-pass repairs may uncover additional issues, so this is a normal thing to do).
4. When fsck reports that your volume is OK, type reboot at the prompt and then press Return.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), & use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, reboot once more.
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.

10.4 Install disk won't see new hard drive

My 10.5.6 drive is dying so I replaced it with a brand new drive. I bought my computer just after the 10.5.0 upgrade, so it came with two 10.4 disks and a 10.5 upgrade disk.
When I insert 10.4 disk 1 and boot, I get to the point where I am asked to select a drive. Nothing is showing. My hard drive is not recognized.
There is only one setup path. There is no way to use Utility or any other program. There are no tabs, options or anything else but this setup path. OsX 10.4 Disk 2 is not recognized. The OSX 10.5 disk is not recognized.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the Erase tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Highlight the drive, select Partition Tab, then Format type... MacOS Extended Journalled... after completion hopefully you'll be able to install.

Software Install Disc Won't Boot

Please help, I found a Power Mac G4 that somebody had thrown away(M# 5183 450 MHz DP/2X1M Cache/128 MB Ram It has vertical sound ports and a AGP Card. Has the year 2000 on back) . It would not boot, I found a pinched wire on the power supply, now it boots with some version of X. But it is password protected, I want to wipe the drive and install an OS from an install disc I got off ebay(For a Power Mac G4 year 2000 SSW version 9.04 691-2739-A).
Now the fun begins. The CD will not boot with C depressed, I've tried resetting the PRAM, and sometimes I get a screen telling me to reboot and after I do the protected os will load. I tried booting with cmd-opt-O-F; this said I had a power mac 3,3 3.1f1 BootROM built on 6/28/00. Tried booting with options depressed it just shows me the drive I want to get rid of. Tried cmd-opt-shift-delete on startup nothing would load as long as the keys were down, the protected os loads when they are released. I also tried moving the jumpers on the hd from master to cable select.
Do I need an osX install disc to get rid of X ? any thoughts would be appreciated .
G4 Mac OS 9.0.x

Hi, macaraina -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
Your G4 450MHz DP machine is a Gigabit Ethernet model. Those models originally shipped with a model-specific version of OS 9.0.4; later models may have shipped with OS 9.1.
I suspect the CD you got on eBay is not valid for your machine.
In addition, the version of Drive Setup that came with OS 9.0.4 and earlier had a defect - when used to format a drive as Mac OS Extended (which is the correct format for OS 9 and also valid for OSX), such as when wiping a drive, it can leave the drive vuknerable to getting a wrapper error.
Article #31056 - HFS Wrapper Partition Damaged
For those reasons, particularly the second one, I suggest you get either a retail OS 9.1 Install CD or a retail OS 9.2.1 Install CD - either is suitable for your model. All retail OS 9 Install CDs those are white, with a large gold 9 on them; the retail OS 9 Install CD's have a universal installer; model-specific Install CD's do not.
You can often get retail OS 9 Install CD's in various versions at sites like these -
http://macsolutions.com/
http://www.allmac.com/
http://store.yahoo.com/hardcoremac/index.html - Apple Reseller
http://www.applerescue.com/

Instal disc won't change password

I've forgotten my password. I tried to use the instal disc and followed the instructions to change password. Message confirmed password changed, but when I restart my new password is not recognised. I'm lost at what to do next.

Hi there, BDAqua says the nicest things. Ok, if the Password change doesn't work, after using the Install Disk, it's likely that you may have made a mistake during the process. So, you'll have to go again.
Boot from the Installer Disk, holding down the C Key until the Apple Logo appears.
Select your language, but do NOT press Continue..just the little arrow, and that will bring up the Menu Bar (up top). Click Utilities, and scroll to Reset Password. Follow the prompts, carefully. Quit Utilities and Installer, and Reboot.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274
Scroll to Resetting Original Admin. Password.

Install discs won't work

I need to reinstall my iDVD app, so I inserted the original install discs, but when I do, the start spinning for a few seconds, then eject after three tries. Is there a problem with my install discs? Or do I need to do something?

Are those other discs CDs or DVDs?
If you can get use of that other Mac, use FireWire target disk mode...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
Put the MBP Install DVD in the the other Mac, shut both down, connect with a Firewire cable, boot the other Mac holding the t key down, once the floating FW symbol shows up, boot the MBP holding the Option/alt key down, eventually the MBP's Install Disk will show as a Boot Option.

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