New Hard Drive for iBook, having problems installing OSX

Hello all,
Recently i just swaped out my old 10GB HD out of my iBook G3 (Clamshell, yes i know its old, but i like it) for a 160GB HD and i cant get the OS on my Hard drive, i tried doing partitions for it, but it gave me that OSX cant be installed on this volume ( pic). Anyone could help? (Hard Drive is Seagate 160GB, 5,400 RPM, Ultra ATA/100, 8mb Cache, PC or Mac)

 

Are you installing OS X 10.4 Tiger? Did you format/partition the drive as Mac OS Extended (HFS+)? Follow these instructions: Partitioning A Hard Disk.

 

I read somewhere before that the old Clamshell's could not read a HD over 120GB.

 

^^ wouldnt suprise me

 

Its Mac OSX 10.3 Panther. I did try using Mac OS Extended (HSF+). Gives me that error.

Awww man, can anyone else comfirm this? If its true, i got alot of unscrewing to do before the weekend.....

Well it DOES detect the HD (but listed as 128GB, not 160 or near it)

 

ive sort of half confirmed it, but idk for sure.

 

Did anyone else replaced their Clamshell HD and bought something higher (alot higher) and reads, cant install Mac OSX blah blah blah?

Would like to know so maybe i can return the HD this weekend or use it in another notebook..

 

I cannot remember where i read that but it may have been on the Apple discussion forums.
I just did a search and came acros this thread there-
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3300766�

If you partition your drive up i don't know if this is possible though you maybe able to use it all the 160GB HD but not as one partition. You maybe also be able to do it if you booted it of from a firewire drive. I am not certain on that but it is worth looking into. You may just want to return your drive for a 120GB HD. I used to own a Clamshell it was a key lime 466 one but i sold it.

Here is also a bit on it from the Apple website this article was intending for the Power Macintosh but what it says applies to all pre 2002 early Apple notebooks also-
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
It has to do with the 48 bit LBA addressing.

 

It's too old to recognize the 160GB drive, that is your problem for sure. I'm afraid the solution is to get a smaller drive.

 

A couple of sites says you can use a 160GB drive. http://www.pbcentral.com/columns/hildreth_moore/clamshell.shtml

The question is do you have the drive set for master? I would google the net and ask question at "Xcelerate your mac" for like upgrades.

Good Luck..

 

Alright, before i made this thread, i originaly made 2 partitions, OS 9 and OSX. Both were set as normal format (the default one) wouldn't let me do zit on them. Kept doing a bunch of random partitions and none of them work....

I wonder if getting OS 10.2 would help solve my problem.... Says the max it reads is 128GB

So there is some mixed stuff, you can put something higher than 128gb, but need something to find the rest?