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I have an older G4 that I am setting up for my little sister. The original hard drive in in went bad, so I put in a "new" one that I pulled from a working PC. I also bought OS 10.4.3 to install. When I try to install it on the new disk I get the message "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. Mac OS X cannnot start up from this volume." I have re-partitioned the drive and tried all of the formatting options, but no matter what I do it mounts to the /Volumes/hard_drive (where hard_drive is the name of the partition I created). I am not sure, but I suspect that I need the drive to mount to the root directory to fix this problem. Does that sound right? If so, how do I do that? There are no other hard drives on this system, though it does have a zip drive. Please Help!
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The drive is mounting properly. Have you checked the drive to be sure you have it jumpered as the MASTER? I'm assuming from your post that "replacing" means there is still only one hard drive in the computer.
Because I don't know exactly what you did to prep the drive let me provide instructions just to be sure:
1. Boot from your Tiger DVD. After the installer loads 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. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu to one that is the total space on the drive. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume mount on the Desktop.
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 Options 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 will take 30 minutes to an hour or more depending upon the drive size.
If the drive is prepped as above you should then be able to install OS X on the drive. When the Tiger installer reaches the point for selecting the destination be sure to select the correct drive as the destination drive.

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