Help Please New Harddrive

big25g

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Hi there i have an old g3 i mac, and have just put a new hard drive which was supposed to have os9 on, but when i boot it up all i get is a small question mark inthe middle of screen and then the finder face, whats going on? what does it mean?

Thanks
Gary
 
big25g said:
Hi there i have an old g3 i mac, and have just put a new hard drive which was supposed to have os9 on, but when i boot it up all i get is a small question mark inthe middle of screen and then the finder face, whats going on? what does it mean?

Thanks
Gary
It sounds to me like there is not a useable O/S (operating system) on that particular drive. Do you have the original CDs that came with the G3 so you can reinstall OS9? If not, you may have to purchase a copy from someone. HTH.

Regards,

albtross
 
i dont have the discs at the moment but im trying to get hold of osx which i had before. do you know whether it is possible to connect the mac hard drive to a pc and make a copy so that i can tranfer the files to the newer bigger hard drive?
 
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