Ok so I was trying to format my ibook's HD and I did a clean swipe with Techtool pro, which I figured was the right way to do it, apparently not, also I seem to have many a bad sector on my hd, which scared me a bit.
The main problem I seem to be having is that whenever i try and boot from a tiger cd it won't boot it'll go to the little folder in the center of the screen which flashes between the token question mark and the 2faced-drama-like-mac logo, also when I boot with the option key it doesn't show the hard drive (maybe cause I formatted it incorrectly) nor does it show the cd rom drive. I've reset the pram, that was successful. The tiger cd I have used is not the original cd which I will recover soon.
I have a gateway pc and I tried connecting it via target mode and got it to load the big yellow firewire logo on the screen but my pc laptop doesn't recognize it, I tried macdrive and nothing and also transmac and nothing.
What should/can I do, should I reformat using some other piece of software? Do I need a new hard drive? Did I format the HD incorrectly? Any kind if help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks
felo
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The main problem I seem to be having is that whenever i try and boot from a tiger cd it won't boot it'll go to the little folder in the center of the screen which flashes between the token question mark and the 2faced-drama-like-mac logo, also when I boot with the option key it doesn't show the hard drive (maybe cause I formatted it incorrectly) nor does it show the cd rom drive. I've reset the pram, that was successful. The tiger cd I have used is not the original cd which I will recover soon.
I have a gateway pc and I tried connecting it via target mode and got it to load the big yellow firewire logo on the screen but my pc laptop doesn't recognize it, I tried macdrive and nothing and also transmac and nothing.
What should/can I do, should I reformat using some other piece of software? Do I need a new hard drive? Did I format the HD incorrectly? Any kind if help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks
felo
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