Os 9.2 to 10.2 upgrade killed my HD

J-F Desfossés · May 26th, 2006, 10:42 AM

Hi,

I have an iMac 400 Blueberry that was given to me.

I upgraded from 9,2 to 10,2, and when I rebooted, I had a blue square box with a question mark in it.

1) I rebooted while zapping PRAM 3 times, same result.

2) I rebooted while holding C key to start with OS X,2 installation disk, and although it booted from the disk, I ran Utilities which detected only the cd, not the drive.

3) I tried to install my drive in my dual 500 as a slave (Jumper 2nd position from the left, while my original drive has jumper at the 1st left), and it booted as it did in the blueberry.

I do not know what to do...my drive is a 10 gig Quantum.

Thanks !

JF

Gerbill · May 26th, 2006, 11:03 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by J-F Desfossés
	Hi, I have an iMac 400 Blueberry that was given to me. I upgraded from 9,2 to 10,2, and when I rebooted, I had a blue square box with a question mark in it. 1) I rebooted while zapping PRAM 3 times, same result. 2) I rebooted while holding C key to start with OS X,2 installation disk, and although it booted from the disk, I ran Utilities which detected only the cd, not the drive. 3) I tried to install my drive in my dual 500 as a slave (Jumper 2nd position from the left, while my original drive has jumper at the 1st left), and it booted as it did in the blueberry. I do not know what to do...my drive is a 10 gig Quantum. Thanks ! JF

Your problem is the motherboard, not the hard drive. You apparently forgot to do the required firmware upgrade before installing OS X. You are now in deep do-do.

MacDoc · May 26th, 2006, 11:04 AM

You are lucky you did not kill more than the drive.
Your firmware needs to be brought up to 4.1.9 on the iMac -
You need to boot off a OS9 drive and update the firmware on the iMac from there.

J-F Desfossés · May 26th, 2006, 11:10 AM

Ok...But why doesn't the drive work in my dual 500...Is there a way for me to reinstall os 9 on it using my 500 ?

MacDoc · May 26th, 2006, 12:15 PM

Yes there is.
That said the drive IS getting long in the tooth.
Are you sure it's set for master?

J-F Desfossés · May 26th, 2006, 01:03 PM

I am not sure, I thought if I put the first jumper on my regular drive
and the second jumper on my blueberry drive, the blueberry would be slave...

Can anyone correct this ?

domenic · May 26th, 2006, 01:20 PM

hi have you check to see if the harddrive is in the unit it might have been pulled out

MacDoc · May 26th, 2006, 01:34 PM

depends on the drive manufacturer - one needs to be slave and one master - jumpers vary

J-F Desfossés · May 31st, 2006, 10:22 AM

Thanks for all your help.

FInally, I simply put in a new hard drive, installed os 9.2, checked the firmware (it was ok), ands installed os X.

I guess that while installingOS X, I really killed the HD....I have no idea how it happened.

I took my old HD, checked tried to boot it in my machine as master, and the machine wont acknowledge its presence. I tried to put it as a slave, still no acknowledgment. (I checked on the drive's manifacturer's specifications for the correct jumper settings).

I guess I will toss my drive unless someone has a suggestion !

Cheers and thanks for your help !

JF

jdurston · May 31st, 2006, 11:04 AM

I upgraded a B&W tower last year. We added a Seagate for the OS X install and kept the original drive with 8.6 on it.

Under OS X the 8.6 drive was not visible. I think I rebooted from the original software disks and set the startup disk to 8.6. I then copied all the files to the newer drive and pulled the old one.