NTFS drive installed in iMAC - now what!?!
Hello from Richmond, VA: the hard drive in my 2008 iMac crashed - at least I think it was the HD b/c the iMac wouldn't boot. I bought a new 2015 iMac, and used Time Machine to get it up and running - no issues! I watched the U-Tube video and replaced the hard drive in my old 2008 iMac with a spare hard drive that I wasn't using - it took a couple hours, but I got it back together just fine. I erased this drive before I installed it, but it was still formatted as an NTFS drive because I was using it with my Windows desktop. Questions: (1) the original installation disks won't install in the 2008 iMac. Is this because I installed a drive formatted with NTFS? (2) if the answer to no. (1) is YES, is there any way to reformat this hard drive while it's still installed in the 2008 iMac? (3) if the answer to no. 2 is NO, if I remove the drive please advise how I can use my new 2015 iMac to format the drive so the 2008 iMac will recognize it after I reinstall it. (4) With this same NTFS drive installed, I used the iMAC hardware test utility in my 2008 iMac, and it appeared that everything was OK. Is it possible the original hard drive was really OK, and the inability to boot issue was caused by something other than the HD? (5) I plugged the original HD from my 2008 iMac (the drive I thought was bad) into my USB port on my Windows desktop. Disk management indicated that the HD was healthy - can on rely on this information? Thanks much!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
