[kelvinfx]

My g4 power book's hard drive just went crazy so i had to replace it, so i got a 120gig drive and replaced it, swtiching the system on so i could install, it showed me a folder for a while then moved on to show me a Large Padlock a small place to type in a password and a button to login, and i figure ok maybe it's my user password, and it didn't work tried my admin password, nothing worked, am clueless to this can anybody help out,

The old drive still works but it takes forever to boot, is it possible to put back the old drive startup the system and somehow format or clone the old drive to the new one?

.............pls anybody help.