Disk Utility Doesn't Recognize Hard Drive
Hi all,
I have an iBook G4 running Tiger 10.4. Occasionally it freezes and when I restart, I get the blank grey screen, no Apple logo, nothing. I typically am able to boot to the install disc, use Disk Utility to verify disk permissions, make repairs and get things back up and running.
Today, when I tried that the only three icons I get are "2.6 GB MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123", the Mac OSX install DVD and "37.3 GB FUJITSU MHT2040AT"
Instead of these, it should be showing my actual hard drive. When I try to verify disk permissions on the one that should be my actual hard drive, I get the message "No Valid Packages".
This has happened in the past but usually if I rebot a few times, eventually it picks up the correct hard drive and I can verify it. This time, no luck. Any idea what this means? Do I need to do a clean reinstall? Thanks for any advice!
I have an iBook G4 running Tiger 10.4. Occasionally it freezes and when I restart, I get the blank grey screen, no Apple logo, nothing. I typically am able to boot to the install disc, use Disk Utility to verify disk permissions, make repairs and get things back up and running.
Today, when I tried that the only three icons I get are "2.6 GB MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123", the Mac OSX install DVD and "37.3 GB FUJITSU MHT2040AT"
Instead of these, it should be showing my actual hard drive. When I try to verify disk permissions on the one that should be my actual hard drive, I get the message "No Valid Packages".
This has happened in the past but usually if I rebot a few times, eventually it picks up the correct hard drive and I can verify it. This time, no luck. Any idea what this means? Do I need to do a clean reinstall? Thanks for any advice!
iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4)
