The drive will appear as 'available' in disk utility but anything I try to do gets me an 'input output error'. The original and the new ata hard drives I have can both be formatted and used via the usb converter but are useless when used as an internal drive. Granted carrying around an external drive everywhere I go to use the comp is rather annoying.įormatting through terminal / open firmwareįormatting through disk utility while OSX is running (same error) The install went smooth and I can boot OSX off the fw drive. I had an old sata drive laying around and bought a sata -> firewire converter for and this has worked. I put it back into the internal wiring harness, tried to install but the partition was not recognized and received the same error while trying to format / partition. I have a serial -> usb converter and the hard drive was recognized, and formatted.

I replaced the hard drive and received the same error. I tried to format the internal hard drive and kept getting an 'input / output error'.

I have a 10.5 leopard disk I am using disk utility and trying to install. I have recently picked up a iBook G4 and somehow the OS was erased when I received.

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