Mac Leopard OS 10.5 Intall doesn't see IMac HD

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geezerpk

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(Imac G5, 2gig ram, 233gig Maxtor HD, Tiger 10.4.11 Intalled.)

I recently purchased a Leopard 10.5 Family Pack (5 install) Installer and am attempting to upgrade my Imac to OS 10.5. When I run the installer it goes through the first three steps or so, but when it comes to the screen to select a disk to install the system to, no disks appear.

The first time I tried the install I had an external firewire disk connected, and the installer did recognize that drive for an installation, but that's not what I want to do. The Internal disk is HFS formatted, and is the original Maxtor disk that came with the IMac. As I noted above, Tiger 10.4.11 is already installed and operating correctly.

I started up from Tiger and ran the Disk Utility to correct permissions and also scanned it for problems and there were none to correct. The Hard Drive has about 40gig free for installation. Anyone have ideas? Your help is greatly appreciated.
 
When you have that screen to select the hard drive, and no hard drive appears - choose Disk Utility, from the Utilities menu. Repair the disk from there, then exit Disk Utility. Does the hard drive then appear for you to use for the install?
 
DeltaMac said:
When you have that screen to select the hard drive, and no hard drive appears - choose Disk Utility, from the Utilities menu. Repair the disk from there, then exit Disk Utility. Does the hard drive then appear for you to use for the install?
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Thanks for responding. I tried what you suggested on the first install attempt. When I opened Disk Utility the Maxtor HD showed up, but when I selected it, all of the repair action buttons were grayed out. Ugh. The only way I was able to attempt repairs was rebooting from Tiger and running the utility from that OS. Tiger utility indicated the disk was in good order.
 
When you are in Disk Utility, while booted to your Leopard installer, select the hard drive device (the line with the manufacturer's info, and not a partition line)
The info at the bottom of that window will show the Partition map scheme.
What is that scheme on your hard drive?
Is SMART status Verified?
Both Repair Disk, and Repair Disk Permissions buttons are still grey?
If you select the partition (the one that you named, like Macintosh HD or something else), does any kind of message appear in the main window?
 
DeltaMac said:
When you are in Disk Utility, while booted to your Leopard installer, select the hard drive device (the line with the manufacturer's info, and not a partition line)
The info at the bottom of that window will show the Partition map scheme.
What is that scheme on your hard drive?
Is SMART status Verified?
Both Repair Disk, and Repair Disk Permissions buttons are still grey?
If you select the partition (the one that you named, like Macintosh HD or something else), does any kind of message appear in the main window?
Click to expand...
Update! Your advice got me on the right track I think. I again rebooted from the Leopard install disk, and the hard drive still didn't register as an install disk. I again opened the Disk Utility and selected the Maxtor hd. This time the action buttons were illuminated. Hooray! I suspect that running the Tiger utility earlier in the day may have at least made the disk acceptable for Leopard Disk Utility to do its thing. I guess on my second attempt at the install I probably gave up on the install after the install didn't see the hard drive even after I'd run the Tiger utility. Taking to step to try the Leopard Disk Utility cleared the way for the install. Leopard did install, and I'm operting under it now. Many thanks for the hand holding.
 
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