Setting up a new hard drive ?

I went ahead and successfully changed my 250gb WD hard drive to a 500gb Seagate 3.5" in my imac G5, which was a second hand computer (late 2005 model, previously running Tiger 10.4.6, stable & good condition - but had no MAC OS X installation DVD)
The powerbook G4 install DVD and Leopard install DVD are not working. (This i realized later while researching that apple installation DVD are system specific - wonder how this is done)
Initially, I tried to clone (using SuperDuper) my powerbook G4 start-up partition on to a new external firewire drive and then connected it to the imac. It powers on, but did not recognize the firewire drive. "press C+ hold down" or any other button didn't work. Then I repeated the same using Apple Ipod 20gb with firewire cable. Nothing worked.
I had to beat around the bush and find out about Open Firmware, then on restarting into the firmware, it asked for a password -(didnt know that). Then proceeded to reset the PRAM which went fine after 3 restarts and voila !!
Now, my Imac powers on, recognizes Mac OS X install DVD as i press C, the display shows Apple logo for about 30 secs, (can hear DVD & empty 500gb hdd whirring in background) and then there is this new logo " ( / ) " shows up - like a No Parking symbol.
This happens with the firewired Apple Ipod (containing bootable clone of my powerbook G4)
{the imac recognizes the start-up ipod on restarting, shows Mac OS X 10.4 symbol when I press the command+option key.} After about 30 seconds, apple logo comes up, shows "busy" working in the background. Then, the new logo - like " ( / ) " No parking symbol appears.
Can anyone explain what I should do further. I contacted Apple, they said ordering the specific new Imac G5 Tiger install discs will take another 2-3 weeks. I dont want to revert to my old 250gb disk.
Kindly advice and help me to fix this thing up.
Any help is very much appreciated. Many thanks.

If it recognizes the Leopard install disc, try to go to First Aid>Disk Utility and select your drive and then Partition it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). What follows is a more comprehensive instruction from Indiana University's Knowledge Base.
+If your install disc is for Mac OS X, follow these steps:+
+1. From the Installer menu, select Open Disk Utility... . In the window that opens, on the left, click the icon for the drive you would like to initialize or partition.+
+2. To the right, click the Partition tab.+
+3. In the pop-up menu under "Volume Scheme:", choose the number of partitions to be created during the initializing process. By partitioning your drive, you divide it into multiple volumes that can hold different file and operating systems. For a basic installation of Mac OS X, just one partition is necessary.+
+4. After you've chosen the number of partitions you want, you can adjust their sizes by dragging the graphical handles that represent the partition borders.+
+5. Click each of the partitions to adjust its properties. Under "Volume Information", you may choose the format you would like to use. The default choice will be Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), depending on the version of the operating system you have, and typically it should be the one you use.+
+6. Once you've chosen your volume scheme, click the Partition button.+
+After your drive is formatted and partitioned, you may continue with other installations from your install disc. Of course, such an installation will be necessary before you can boot (start up) from your newly partitioned hard drive.+
Hope this helps,

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Cheers!

You have to format the drive before you do anything. And there's really no reason to take it to a computer repair shop - you can do it yourself.
Simply get an enclosure and put your 'old' drive it in. Install the 'new' hard drive into the hard drive bay. Boot from the old disk in the enclosure and use Disk Utility to format the new drive ("Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" with a single GUID partition. Then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your old drive to your new internal.
A good enclosure can be found for as little as $20 - OWC has them but so should a computer shop in your area.
Quite easy to do - here's a user tip on cloning - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4122.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642
reset-nvram (press Enter)
set-defaults (press Enter)
reset-all (press Enter)
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How do I copy my iphoto library and music library from my time capsule to my new hard drive?
I have a Macbook pro - 2.53 GHz - 4 GB memory. I just replaced my hard drive to 500 GB and upgraded to OX 10.9.4. I created a new user account and login password for the new hard drive. I copied my documents folder to external drive before the old hard drive failed, but I was not able to copy over my iphoto library or imusic library. My old hard drive was regularly backed up on my time capsule (1TB).
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You probably tried to move a user account from your TC to your computer that was already active on the computer.. this is one of the no no's that pondini lists.
See how to migrate. http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html
There is a huge amount of info there about transferring files.. that you must not have a user account of the same name as the one you migrate.. and how to transfer files between migrated accounts.
He also has specific info on moving itunes and iphoto stuff here.
Q15 http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
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There is details here..
How to reset admin password iMac
I have had to do that myself.. once you reset the password you will be able to login to the account.

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I have replaced my hard drive in my imac 24inch and restored the system from my time capsule. My question is now my time machine is trying to back up to my time capsule but it is already 3/4 full from the old drive in my imac. How do i best set up my time capsule with time machine after installing a new hard drive in the imac. I was hoping that i would restore the system and I would still be able to (after pointing time machine to my time capsule) access old files if needed in time machine. It has presently deleted a lot of older backups but still cannot fit it all in as it just sees a new hard drive worth of info and is attempting to back it all up on my time capsule.

wjosten wrote:
Me, I would never use Time Machine to do this. What I'd suggest you do is get an exterior enclosure for your new drive. Then use either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone your existing drive to your new drive. Once done, verify your clone is bootable & all of your data present. Then swap drives & use your old drive for Time Machine backups(after erasing it). Then get another drive & exterior enclosure to regularly clone your new drive to.
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Unfortunately the keyboard does not seem to be responding well of at all and I get stuck part way through the set up process and cant even get to my desktop now.
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time machine backups are specific to the mac that creates them, since you had the HD replaced the time machine thinks it's a different mac therefore it won't let you "restore" the data to the mac. that is why you have to "migrate" from the time machine backup to restore it.
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following article tells how to migrate from time machine backup:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4500
hope all goes well for you!

HT4413 When migrating from time machine to my new hard drive, only some files and applications and setting are transferred, not all of them. In my latest back up I have them all. How can I fix that?

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sohs wrote:
When migrating from time machine to a new hard drive, not all is transferd, only partial documents, applications , settings etc. How can I migrate the latest back-up with all the content.
If you want to use Time Machine to recover the contents of one of its a backups to a new drive, follow the instructions in Mac OS X 10.6: Recovering your entire system. Note that you must select the "Restore System From Backup" option from the Utilities menu of the Installer disc to do this.
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Hi-
Sorry, I may have been a bit obscure....
To be precise, one should boot to the OS X install disc and use Disk Utility to repair the original hard drive and permissions.
You can't repair the boot drive while started to it.
Permissions, yes, but not directory repair.
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Step 1: Buy a new Hard drive that can be installed in your MacBook Pro later, and an External enclose to place it in for now.
The MacBook Pro before 2010 can not contain the stand-alone firmware to go to the Internet and get a fresh copy of Mac OS X and install it.
You will need a working Recovery_HD, or to drop back to a 10.6 DVD (if it will Boot on your Mac).
There may be a functioning Recovery_HD on your existing Boot Drive. If you were running 10.7.4 or later and Time Machine, there may be a Recovery_HD on the Time Machine Volume.
To check:
Hold down the Alt/Option key as you restart. This will slowly draw a gray screen and then add an Icon (over several minutes) for each potentially-bootable volume. If any Recovery_HD shows up, take it, and you will be able to get to Internet Recovery and re-download some version of Mac OS X that can be installed on a new drive.
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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.
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