Install Mac OS 10.3 using a Windows old HD.

Hi, I bought a cheap iMac G3 with 4GB HD, I never open a Mac's Computer but I changed the HD for a 40GB without problems, it still have a original Windows instalation. When I boot the Computer I just see a screen blinking a folder and the mac's logo even I press down <C> with MAC OS 10.3 CD inside the drive, so I turned back the HD for the original but the blinking folder keep on show me. Can someone help me?

If it has a 4GB hard drive, it is probably a tray-loader iMac (the optical drive loads on a tray instead of the disk going into a slot).
Did it work normally with the 4GB drive initially, before you tried the swap?
Were you able to boot (using the C key startup) that 10.3 installation disc initially, when the 4GB drive was in there?
Possible problems:
Is the 10.3 installation disc a retail disc? If so, it should be black with a big silver X, and it should come as a set of three discs. If it's one disc, it is probably a DVD that came with another Mac model, and it won't work on your iMac. For one thing, your iMac only has a CDROM drive.
When you put in the 40GB drive, did you set the jumpers on the drive for Master? It may be set for Cable Select, and that will not work. On the tray-loader, there are two IDE buses, one for the hard drive and one for the optical drive, so the hard drive should be set for Master (with no slave drive present). I can't explain why it no longer works with the original drive if it worked before.
If you manage to get the 10.3 installation disc to boot, and the 40GB hard drive to be recognized, and your iMac is a tray-loader (not a slot-loader), you will need to partition the hard drive so that the one you install Mac OS X on is the first partition and is under 8GB in size. But first things first... You have to be able to boot the 10.3 installation disc before you can do anything else.

Similar Messages

  • I have switched from PC to Mac how do i use my windows version  of adobe photoshop CS3 on my MAC?

    i have switched from PC to Mac how do i use my windows version  of adobe photoshop CS3 on my MAC?

    rebel1568,
    All Photoshop versions through CS6 came with platform-specific licenses, either Windows or PC.  You could get a cross-grade of platform swap at a nominal cost but not for older versions, only for whatever Photoshop versions was current at the time.
    CS3 is totally out of the upgrade or cross-grade loop.  You'd have to buy a new license for CS6 Mac or subscribe to Photoshop CC, as Trevor points out.
    Curt Y is correct in that CS2 will not run on current Mac-Intel machines.  You would need a used Mac G5 or G4 with a PowerPC (IBM) CPU, which have been obsolete since mid 2006.
    Of course, you could run your Windows  on your Mac if you installed and ran BootCamp or Parallells.

  • Installing mac in macbook after using windows 7 in it

    earlier i installed windows 7 in macbook pro, now i want to install mac again,
    i removed the hard drive, formatted it fully, made it an unallocated partition
    now when i insert mac disc, it pulls it out again, and its not booting mac disc for installation
    dont know whether there is something wrong with the partition system
    need your assistance

    Did you use the Boot Camp Assistant app to create the Windows partition and start the Windows install or did you install Windows natively without any version of OS X on the system?
    If you used Boot Camp then OS X is still on your hard drive. At a restart or statup after shutting down hold down the Option key to get the boot selection screen and then select the OS X partition, usually Macintosh HD.
    If you wiped the drive completely before or during the install of Windows then you will need either the original system reinstall discs that came with your Mac, if it came with discs, or use the Online Internet Recovery system if your Mac computer came out after June 2011.

  • Making a USB install disc for macbook air using a windows PC!

    Ok i have an iMac and a macbook air, so this guide here seems good for me right?
    How to Create a Mac Snow Leopard USB Installer Disk
    The problem I've got is that my iMac superdrive is skewed, it just won't read anything (disc is new etc but the drive won't work with pretty much ANY disc at all, and i mean any, just spits them out after a few seconds of trying to read it).
    Anyways, can this process as described in the URL above be done using a windows based pc? i also have one as a media centre in my room and it has a working dvd drive..... if so what do i need to do? this is driving me insane! i cannot afford an external superdrive or any other external drives at the moment nor is the iMac in warranty and nor do i have the ability to take it anywhere.

    Its a long one to explain but the superdrive in the imac works when it wants, and fortuantly last time it worked with the OSX disc that came with the imac! amazing, i made the usb installer and then when booted with macbook air it stated it cannot be installed. I did a little digging and discovered that it was because the imac came with one of those grey OEM discs and are not able to transpose to another machine at all, this is officially from apple and what others have used, hence my need to then get a full snow leopord disc.
    The disc however unlike the other OSX grey one will not read at all
    also what i mean is can i use the drive from the windows machine to make the usb install disc not using windows itself....?

  • Is it possible to install Mac OS X tiger on a Windows based computer?

    im really getting frusterated with windows, but i dont want to spend 500 for a mac. all im really asking..is it possible to install MAC OSX Tiger on a windows based computer? my computer has a dvd drive, CD-RW drive, 512 MB of RAM, and a nivdia G force 4 graphics card.
    i guess my main question is if i can install the MAC OS X on my computer. you know how if you have a computer, you can just buy the Windows XP program and install it? can i do the same with the MAC OS X? please help..
      Windows XP  

    Hi got_jorge,
    Sorry, this is not possible, as it is not only a matter of data that you put on the Hard Drive.
    Everything is different:
    CPU, Firmware, Power Management, etc.
    It just doesn't work the same way.
    May I suggest?
    Sell your computer, so that you can get a Mini and (most probably) don't need to buy a display, as yours should make it with the Mini?
    Sorry.
    Axl

  • Formatted on Mac OS === how to use on Windows

    I´m traveling, and want to use my ipod 4G on my friend´s computer - windows xp. But when I connect the ipod, iTunes says this "iTunes has detected an iPod formatted on Macintosh. You must reformat this iPod to use it on XP".
    Is this for real???? Is there no way to use it without reformatting?
    Thanks!

    Is your iPod actually Mac formatted or is this an incorrect message? If your iPod is formatted for Mac it won't run natively on a PC because Windows operating systems don't recognize Mac OS-formatted disks (HFS or HFS Plus formats). Mac formatted iPods can only be used on a PC that has a third party helper program such as XPlay or MacDrive installed: How to determine your iPod's disk format
    Apart from that, if it is genuinely Mac formatted then no you can't use it without reformatting it for Windows. The problem lies with the Windows OS, Macs can read Windows formatting so had you been working the other way around you could have connected a Windows formatted iPod to a Mac.
    If it is Windows formatted and you are getting that message, try changing the drive letter associated with the iPod. You'll get details in this article: Windows confuses iPod with network drive and iTunes may exhibit strange behavior in relation to the iPod.

  • How can I install Mac Creative Suite 5.5 on Windows 8 w/ no CD slot?

    In college we were roped into buying Macbooks for our courses. We were given Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 and I distinctly remember the IT guy telling us it had the capability of running on one Apple product and one Windows product. Now that I no longer have my Macbook and I'm using a new Windows 8 laptop with no slot for a disc, how do I install the creative suite? Was the IT guy just yanking my chain? I would greatly love to not have that software go unused.

    Normally when you bought a Creative Suite the license is good for one platform or the other, but not both.  Though you might have had some special licensing arrangement for the school.
    If you want to take a shot at it... you can download the trial version of the software thru the page linked below and then use your current serial number to activate it.
    Be sure to follow the steps outlined in the Note: Very Important Instructions section on the download pages at this site and have cookies enabled in your browser or else the download will not work properly.
    CS5.5: http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs5-5-direct-download-links.html

  • Installing Mac OS X leopard using CPU drop-in DVD

    Hi. I'm a first time Mac user and have been using Mac OS X leopard happily for past 4 months.
    Then something happened... my macbook kinda gave up on me..
    it won't start.. it would only start up to chime once and show bluish-gray screen with the wheel turning.. so i decided to look up solution using mac for dummies..
    it told me how to reinstall pressing C and power button and all...
    so i got the software reinstalled. but what i didn't know was the install CD i had was for the older version of Mac OS X (i think it's the tiger)..
    so now i'm stuck with tiger.. which i'm not familiar with.
    but i have this Mac OS X leopard CPU Drop in DVD with me.. and i looked up what it was and the sources tell me it's a upgrading CD for Macbook with tiger.
    so i tried to run in hoping it would upgrade readily..
    but now the problem is the dvd drive won't read this DVD.
    i never had this problem before.
    DVD drive read any kind of DVD before but recently after this disaster it won't read any of the DVDs i insert.
    i'm a total macbook newbie and computer (especially macbook) dummy..
    so could any of macbook experts out there help me solve my problem?...
    in summary, i'm faced with 2 questions.
    1. how do you get my DVD drive to recognize dvd? (do i need to change a setting?)
    2. how do you upgrade tiger to leopard using cpu-drop in dvd? (once i get my dvd drive to read the dvd!! )
    Thank you so much!

    Have you tried booting straight from the DVD?
    From another post:
    "This disc is upgrade only. When you run the Leopard installer it says that Tiger must already be installed on the machine. Further, it does not offer the standard installation options (Archive and Install, Erase and Install, and Upgrade); it only offers Upgrade. The upgrade disc, however, does seem to require a previous Tiger install (i.e. it won't work on a newly formatted hard drive)."
    "covers machines bought 10/1 thru 12/29 2007, Usually the disks that come with the computers are tied to that specific model"

  • Originally formatted for Mac, now need to use with Windows....

    I have a 1st Gen iPod Mini that I had formatted and used (rarely) with my Mac. I now want to wipe it clean and sync it to my iTunes for Windows (7.0.1.8). I am using a brand new Apple Dock Connector to USB 2.0 since my PC isn't able to handle the Firewire cable the Mini came with.
    I connected my Mini to my PC (new Dell laptop) and it pops up a dialogue box stating that the iPod appears corrupted and advised Restoring and/or disconnecting and reconnecting. I reconnected and that did not fix. I then tried to Restore and got this error: "Problem downloading software; requested resource not found".
    I CAN see my iPod in iTunes. I've read a number of different links but I'm at a loss. I think that what I need to do is reformat my Mini to use iTunes for Windows but can't seem to get that far. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is...suprise...supposed to be a holiday gift for someone!Thanks.

    Have you seen these?
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304309
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304468

  • Installing SBO 2007A PL47 for use on Windows Terminal Server 2008

    SAP has announced it supports Windows Server 2008 32 bit. Does this mean it will also support Windows Terminal Server 2008 32 bit for hosted clients? Any input will be appreciated

    Hi,
    There is annoucment only of Windows Server 2008. You can check the status on service Market place under Supported platforms.
    https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000705857&_SCENARIO=01100035870000000183&_ADDINC=011000358700001192682007E&
    Under Product Availablity
    Regards
    Vikas
    SAP Business One FOrums Team
    Edited by: Vikas Rastogi on Mar 12, 2009 10:22 PM

  • How do you install Mac OS X lion drivers into Windows 8 via bootcamp 4?

    Is it possible to get the drivers for my Macbook pro onto the new Windows 8 dev beta via bootcamp, or at all in this case?

    Have a look at the solution in this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3325709?tstart=0
    Stefan

  • If I install Windows on my Mac using Boot Camp, will I be able to use a Windows Keyboard instead of the Keyboard that came with my Mac?

    If I install Windows on my Mac using Boot Camp, will I be able to use a Windows Keyboard instead of the Keyboard that came with my Mac?

    yeah I use a windows keyboard both in OS X and in windows on my imac I pref the split ms type of keyboard over the tiny apple keyboard and I pref the razor mouse so those are my main input sources in both yosemite and windows8.1

  • Can I use the Window XP bundled with MS virtual PC in setting up boot camp?

    Hi hi,
    before having the new 24" iMac, I have MS office professional for Mac running on my 17" G5 iMac it. The bundle pack contains Window xp professional software running on Virtual pc program.
    I want to install boot camp on my new intel mac but can i use the window xp program which is bundled with MS virtual pc software for setting up boot camp?
    please advise.
    iMac 24"   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

    Technically, so long as your bundled version is XP with service pack 2 then you should be able to use it.
    Legally, no. When Windows comes with a PC, even a virtual PC, it's license is for an OEM installation. While it's still functionally the same as a copy you'd buy in the store its license is for use only with that PC it came with and no others.
    Hope this helps! bill
    1 GHz Powerbook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

  • How can I access files from a flash drive that were previously saved using a Windows computer? When I attempt to open the file on MacBook Pro, it is asking to "convert file to"; I also have Microsoft Word installed on the Mac as well.

    How can I access files from a flash drive that were previously saved using a Windows computer? When I attempt to open the file on MacBook Pro, it is asking to "convert file to"; none of the options I choose work. I also have Microsoft Office (with Word) installed on the Mac as well.

    Format the external drive as FAT32 or ExFAT. Both computers will then be able to read and write to it.

  • If I have installed InDesign CS6 on a windows computer and I want to change to a Mac. Can I use my licence or do I have to change to CC?

    If I have installed InDesign CS6 on a windows computer and I want to change to a Mac. Can I use my licence or do I have to change to CC?

    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/order-product-platform-la
    nguage-swap.html

Maybe you are looking for