I have an iBook G4 when I start it up, a folder with a flashing question mark/finder icon appears. I boot it off a OS X 10.4 disk and open Disk Utility. The internal hard drive doesn't show up at all. I installed OS X on my iPod and tried to boot off that, but in Startup Disk it doesn't show up. It's partitioned to Apple Partition Map and formatted as OS X Journaled.
iBook G4
Early 2004
iBook G4-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
The 10.4.9 installer disc did not come with the iBook from 2004. If it came with anything that was a Mac from March 13, 2007 or later. You want either the 10.4 retail disc with a black label with a white X logo with no Update or Dropin or OEM indication on it, or the original discs from the iBook to install on your iPod. Also you need a Firewire compatible iPod to boot the iBook. USB compatible will not work.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6413 Hi Slendermacgirl, Your problem will be better served starting your own thread with the identity of your Mac indicated using the link at the start of my post. Twisted is not going to be able to get good focussed attention unless we answer their questions directly.
Hard Drive Problem
