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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...

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 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...

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...

Wow, my first post! So I have an iMac G3 from 2001 running OS 9 which I'd like to start using for writing. I just need a way to transfer files to and from (ultimately to my MacBook Air M1). I do have an ethernet connection and both Classilla and Microsoft IE, which work to some extent, but so...