Replaced What I Thought was a bad hard drive...
I recently bought an iBook that I knew had issues. I had another iBook with a bad hard drive that I replaced without problems. Now, I just tried to replace the hard drive on the new one, made sure all the connections had been made, etc. When I went to use the restore disk, it does not recognize the new hard drive.
Is this a bad cable or something else?
It sounds like you are having the same problem I did with a new hard drive not being recognized. I replaced the hard drive in my iBook G4 and it wasn't recognized at all. I took off the lower case to be sure it was securely plugged into the logic board and reassembled it and again no dice. I then completely disassembled the iBook and checked everything including the cable and put it all back together again and again, no dice. But I did hear it spin up and run. So I thought a while and then decided to try resetting the PMU several times. And then the drive was recognized, and I was able to proceed to install the OS. Don't know why this worked, but it did for me.
Start up and listen carefully and see if you can hear the hard drive. You may boot up to a flashing world which will eventually turn into a flashing Mac folder/question mark. After resetting the PMU, you should be able to boot up directly to the flashing folder/question mark. If so, try again and see if DU can see the drive then. If you can hear the drive spinning, then that it would argue that the cable is working to some degree at least.
Good luck!
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