it appears as though i really just fried the hard drive somehow. i bought an external HD case, plugged the internal HD into it, and it will not mount/show up on any other computers. seems like i might have just messed with it too much some how i guess...
none of the suggestions on here or...
I already have opened Disk Utility from the install discs and the Internal HD just doesn't show up whatsoever in the list. only the DVD-ROM and disc that is inside. i dont have the option to even tinker with the internal HD
Thank God I didn't do this to my current computer that I use...
Anyways, I have an old G5 I'm getting ready to sell so I wanted to format the hard drive. I went to disk utility, went through the process of erasing the disk, and then I did the thing that writes zeros over everything on your...