Reformatting G4

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dropthedh

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I have a G4 which was a server with two partitioned drives.

Not realizing that I should reformat the drive to make it unpartitioned and be able to upgrade the system from 10.3 to 10.4, I went ahead and attempted to upgrade the Mac system OS.

The update got to a point where it stopped and gave me a message of cannot upgrade the server software.

On restart, the Mac now gets to the gray apple screen and freezes.

When I boot from the 10.4 system disk, I get as far as the Disk Utility before it freezes again.

I tried to boot from a Disk Warrior utility disk to no avail.

I am about to take the G4 to my local Apple repair shop, but am hoping there may be a way around doing that.

I have tried every keystroke I can find to get the Mac to respond.
 
If you boot from the server cd / dvd and it still freezes, i should not have anything to do with the failed upgrade.

You have either a hardware issue or a bad startup disc. I should suggest you try e.g. the 10.3 installation startup disc and if that freezes you computer again, you have a hardware issue for sure (at least 99%).

Good luck, Kees
 
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