mid 2007 iMac with new internal hard drive will not format
Hey all,
I recently acquired a mid 2007 iMac 2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo from a relative. After having it about a week, the hard drive went completely dead. At least that is what I assumed was wrong since when I tried to boot it from any of my 3 different OS disks (10.4, 10.5, 10.6), no hard drive would show up at all even in disk utility. So I purchased a Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200RPM HDD to replace it. After my first installation, the computer still wouldnt recognize the drive so I intitially thought it might be a faulty hard drive but after some research I discovered that these drives are configured to operate at 3Gbits/sec unless there is/you install a jumper on 2 of the pins before installation. With this jumper installed, it limits the drive to 1.5 Gbits/sec to be compatible with older motherboards (like mine). After booting up on the installation disk, it now detects the drive, but when I try to partition it with 1 partition with Options> GUID; Format>Mac OS Extended (journaled) I get an error saying, "POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Input/output error". I'm at my wits end with this darn thing and am about to deploy so I really would like for my wife to have a computer so we can iChat while I'm gone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
iMac, iOS 6
