Recent content by bryanambition

Ahhh you and Action Retro to save the day! Thanks again so much you guys ;-)

Hey thanks so much for the response! Super helpful, as always from this awesome place. Can I ask one more favour? I've found a few PATA/SATA adapters, but none that seem to have the right plug for the new hard drive. Would you be able to actually find a product and send me the link? Just so I...

As you can see by the attached image, I got the wrong type of hard drive for my iMac G3. I denoted which is old and which is new. Is there an adapter I can use to make the new one work? Or is it simply a different realm of hard drives altogether? Also--while we're on the topic--can you tell me...

Thanks so much for the advice! I'll try the first option, as I only have one iMac G3-type computer. Fingers crossed it goes to plan! ;-)

Awesome! And how would you recommend I partition the drive if need be? (Can I do it upon startup after installation?)

Ah, sorry for leaving out such important info! It's an iMac G3 from 2001 (indigo, not DV edition). Knowing this, how would I confirm what ATA controller I have? (Sorry for so many questions--I'm a newbie but absorbing all the info I get!) ;-)

Hey all--I'm planning to replace my current G3 10GB internal hard drive to a larger one. The best (and most affordable) one I found was 500GB, and from what I understand the G3 can only tolerate partitions up to 128GB. So my question is: can I just install the new HD as-is, and expect the system...

Hey thanks so much for the reply! I actually sorted it out by trying a "better" brand of blank CDs. Someone on Reddit had suggested maybe it was the quality of the CDs, and because I'd done everything else the same before, I sprang for a new batch and sure enough it worked! ;-)

Good question--I believe just CD, as that's how they're labelled on MacintoshGarden

Hey all! Yesterday I had a triumph: I burned OS X Panther .toast files to CDs and managed to upgrade my G4 successfully. Yay! However, I tried doing the same with OS X Tiger CDs, and it won't work. At first the G4 refused to recognize the CD. Then I tried to restart holding down C, and although...

First off, thank you SO much for taking this time to help! I may be new, but I'm learning through my mistakes. Update: model number is M6498. I actually just pressed Option upon the boot and got the screen where I can choose just the Macintosh HD, however it goes to the grey screen with the...

Awesome--the only info I can get from the bottom (pic attached) is the serial number--does that help? Also, I tried restarting with Alt+Option but nothing happened--just went to the same old broken file screen. I don't have any other OS X CDs, however it looks like I may have to start scouting...

Hey there! To answer your question, I'm a noob and assumed since it's an older Mac that it would've supported 10.1. It seemed to be fine for the entire installation--no errors or anything. I also assume since the installation went OK, the disc worked, but here I am, stuck. I did manage to the...

I was running an iMac G4 with OS X 10.5.8 Leopard and, since it was slow, booted it up using an older OS X CD-ROM (10.1, I believe) to see if the older version would be faster. The installation seemed to go fine, however after it restarted, it stopped on the grey screen you see (attached image)...

Hey all--working on an iMac G4 and I'm trying to partition my HD in order to install Sorbet Leopard via MacintoshGarden's instructions (https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/sorbet-leopard). Only thing is, I can't get the disk to partition. I get the "Partition Failed with the error: Filesystem...