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Old July 24th, 2005, 03:16 PM
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Initialized hard drive donīt boot

Hello
Iīve got an iMac flatpanel with 512mB Ram, 60G Hd and and a CD.
Moreover Iīve got a extern LaCie d2 DVD.
OS 10.3.8 was installed.
I should restart with my new macOSX tiger DVD when the electricity suddenly went. After this it was impossible to boot with anything. The machine didnīt spin the gear.
Iīd tried all different short comands trying to reset and also pressed the PMU once.
In desperation I bought Drive Genius and that one booted. I repaired. I rebuild. But it was not possible to boot with anything except Drive Genius. It made the gear appear and turn.
I read in the manual of Drive Genius that I could Initialize the hard drive and get a brand new hard drive as from the factory and I thougt that was good so I could have a clean install of OSX. Which I wanted.
Now as before only Drive Genius can boot and from there I can see the DVD player and the inserted MacOSX tiger.
I wonder what i could do now.
I have also a 9.1 boot CD. But nothing boots. Pressinging Alt at startup gives me no choices no matter what CD I put in (except Drive Genius).
Cmd+S gives no responce but Cmd+alt+O+F does.
But what could I do there?
Can I do something with firewire or with my iMac G3 with macOS 9.2 but no firewire terminal though info inside says firewire is enabled.
Thankfull for any kind of answer.
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