Installing Tiger on a new hard drive

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Installing Tiger on a new hard drive

I recently intsalled a 300gb hard drive in my computor and I got disk utility to recognize the full capacity by installing Speedtools ATA hi-cap support driver. But when I try to install the OS, it won't let me. So then I tried the option "erase and install" and Tiger installed just fine but now reads the hard drive as 128gb total. I've tried everything I can think of to get around this obstacle, but I'm obviously doing something wrong. please help this is very frustrating.

G4 PowerPc, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Apr 11, 2007 5:33 PM

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Apr 11, 2007 5:38 PM in response to Lordn00b

You'll have to purchase and install an ATA 100/133 PCI card and attach the drive to that card in order to see all 300GBs.

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Apr 11, 2007 8:29 PM in response to Lordn00b

thanks for your reply, but I don't know if thats the problem. The capacity shows 279.5gb but the available space is only 122.9gb. I know this can't be correct because the only thing I've installed on the hard drive is OSX Tiger. how do I allow the full capacity to be used? I tried patitioning it but that erased OSX.