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Replaced Hard Drive on my iBook G4, but it is not recognised as a Volume when I try to install my OS 10.3.9 Installation Disc 1. Comes up with Error 36. Have dismantled again and checked all connections. If I go to Disc Utility it is there. Have tried to partition it but both partitions come up with red exclamation marks and it will still not install. Help.
Make sure you installed an Ultra ATA/100 drive (same as what you had), I’ve had problems trying to use older drives in these systems. Look at your older drive you should see a jumper located near the connector block. This is the select between device 0" and “device 1 (Master-Slave as some people call it). Make sure it’s correctly set on your new drive.
Hi Dan, Sorry for delay in responding. The boyfriend of a girl I know said he would look at my problem and took my new hard drive in to work. He found that it was formatted for the Intel Chip and not the Power PC Chip that was in all iBooks. He has re-formatted it for Power PC and it has installed perfectly! Apparently the ATA 100 and ATA 130 connections are interchangeable so that was never the problem. Thought I should let everyone know about this fix for new hard drives for old iBooks. All new hard drives are probably formatted for the more recent Intel chip. Thanks for help anyway. Richard
