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When I tried to installed MAC OS 10.5. the system does not seeing the new drive and when I goes to utilities, still not seeing the new drive. ALl it see is just the DVD and nothing else. What I do I need to do…HElp
Use Disk Utilities on your system installation disk and format the drive before trying to install a system. UPDATE - Problem Solved The new SATA drives need to be jumpered. I placed a jumper on pins 5 - 6, setting it to 1.5 GB. The drive came right up
If Disk Utilities doesn’t see your new HDD check the wiring. If still out of luck try the disk externally or in a different Mac and try to format it there. Remember, on a PowerPC based machine you’ll need to format it with the Apple Partition Table as opposite to the GUID table on Intel based machines.
