ibook g4 not starting

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kuroneko81

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noob here...my ibook g4 was showing a flashing question mark when powered on. the genius bar @ the apple store told me the hard drive was bad and needed to be replaced.

after 2000 screws or so, the hard drive was replaced with a 100g fujitsu with apple logo.

powered on with mac os x 10.3.5 disc and will not show hard drive in destination volume. 12 hours after much researching, i opened disc utility and partitioned the drive in 2 partitions (1 @ 78g and 1 @ 22g).

after the partition the destination volume showed the 2 drives but had a red exclamation point and said that the installation could not be on the startup disc (or something to that effect). after backing out of installer to restart, the hard drive does not show @ all in either disc utility OR destination volume.

please help me some1! im kinda hanging with a great machine that doesnt run!!
 
What format did you format the partitions as? Mac OS X 10.3 needs to be formatted as either Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in order for OS X to be installed.
 
it was the disc that came with the ibook.

good news tho...after posting this thinking it was my last hope...which u did give me the extended journal thought...i turned off the ibook cuz i had to go to work. i would have much rathered stayed with it to the end without interruption. i came back from work, turned it on, and both sections i partitioned came right up and listed in the destination volume.

however...during the installation process it began checking the installation disc. it reached 100% and the rainbow pinwheel came up and never went off. after looking @ it for 15 minutes i realized that it wasnt going to stop spinning and that it had froze up.

now im back to the original problem of it not showing up on the destination volume list.

im beginning to think (and dare i say) i should have just saved the money i used on a hard drive and bought a windows pc...said i know
 
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