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Released in October 2003, the iBook G4 replaced the iBook G3 as Apple's portable consumer computer. The iBook G4 was sold in 12" and 14" models and updated for the last time in 2005.

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Trouble recognizing hard drive during disk installation

Ok, I installed my new 320 GB hard drive today and a few days ago after more digging around, I was very lucky to finally find my old installation disks (YAY).

I'm currently following the "Installing Mac OS X V.10.v Leopard" guide but since my disks are not Leopard I'm having a hard time understanding steps 5 through 11. I see my new hard drive in the menu but it has no partition type. Plus the buttons that are shown in the guide are not the same my disk's version. I tried to follow some of the steps but when I go to choose my hard drive in the installation it has a red symbol saying that it can't be used.

I'm hoping that someone could help me on this because I'm really lost.

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If it has no (or the wrong) partition type you must (re)partition it before installing the OS. Use Disk Tools->Disk Utility:Partition tab choose "Apple Partition Map" for type.

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