Superduper Mac

partition the drive to Mac OS Extended, it will still have an MBR partition scheme... and AFAIK, Macs cannot boot from this ... ...

I believe the original poster mentioned whether it's possible to go back to the previous OS on the Mac which was said to be 10.3.9. The original poster is looking to upgrade from that to Tiger using a friend's disc. ...

and reboot the G3 Mac with the 'option' key pressed. ...

Well the best you could do is have something like Alsoft's Disk Warrior and try to repair the disk. Disk Warrior IMHO is the best disk application on OS X, period! Now on the OLD iBook (it IS old) the drive might have failed. On older machine it is not if a drive will fail, it is WHEN it will fail! So did you have backup or use Time Machine (10.5 only)? I bet you didn't...

music, everything that wass important and represented a lot of time spent in front of your Mac ... ...

I installed my new Mac with the software I wanted and partitioned my internal HD to use SuperDuper Sandbox feature for the first time. After all that setup my system was running fine. ...

Power Mac G4 1. ...

so I cloned it with superduper and I've switched the old hard disk with he new one. ...

DOS File System' with Mac OS 10.4.11. But Disk Utility failed in 3 seconds, and gives an error. ...

I would clone the older system to a Mac that has a newer system. That's asking for trouble. ...