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panic kernal on 5 out of 6 hard drives. Can they be fixed?

Can these hard drives be repaired ?

2 layers of text when using an install disc.

bottom layer says shut down & restart.

top layer has endless scrambled text with isolated words, i.e. panic & code interspersed within the text

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That many hard drives failing with a kernel panic indicates to me that your problem lies elsewhere.

When you boot from the install disk with no hard drive in what happens?

Is this a retail system installation disk? What system is it? Is it a machine specific "grey" installation disk and what system is on it and what machine does it say that it's for?

UPDATE

Pre-Installed MacOS: X 10.3.7 Maximum MacOS: X 10.5.8

There are other ways to format than Disk Utilities.

Here's How to Erase a Disk from Command Line in Mac OS X:

http://osxdaily.com/2016/08/30/erase-dis...

Here's how to use Terminal:

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/format-os...

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One hard drive did boot up properly with the retail disc that I used.

I have accumulated gray discs & retail discs with the leopard (not snow leopard) with similar results.

By the way, Mayer, you have the best track record on this site.

Thank you for your time.

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