Thanks for the advice-it's something I should have thought of myself, but didn'tĪlso, thank you for the warning about erasing the contents of the drive-I do have my files backed up and am ready to erase my drive. It's a PowerBook G4 15' FW800, and it uses a plug-in Orinoco Wi-Fi card, with 128-bit encryption (not sure what type of card, it uses the long, but not very tall port on the left side of the laptop). Note: If you erase the hard drive, you lose all data on the hard drive, I hope you have your important files backed-up, and you are ready to do this. You will then be able to select the disk and erase it. At the first installer screen, go to the Installer menu, and choose Disk Utility. Find your OS X installer CD, or the restore disk 1 that shipped with your iBook, and restart with that disk by holding the 'C'. When the erase button is grayed-out, that usually means that you are trying to erase the drive while you are booted to that drive. I'm trying to use Disk Utility to erase the hard drive of my G3 iBook, but all of the boxes under the "Erase" tab are grayed-out.
#HOW TO RESET MAC POWERBOOK G4 INSTALL#
How do I boot the computer from a Panther CD in the external drive? Yeah djackmac your right, i have a powerbook, it has 256 soldered into the board, and you can install up to a gig, which is actually 1.25, getting the computer open is no big deal deltamac, all you have to do is pop off the F1 F2 and F11 and F12 keys take out the screw, and open up the memory model door, in there is a little black screw that. The wrinkle is that the built-in CD-R drive no longer works. I am trying to erase a G4 PowerBook but the Disk Utility Erase tab is grayed out. I have a very similar problem to the person below.
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