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Apple's Disc Utilty which should be there on the disc initializes any HD afaik
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Apple's Disc Utilty which should be there on the disc initializes any HD afaik

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Only in OS X. Not OS 9. The OS 9 disk utility was fussy about drives.
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Only in OS X. Not OS 9. The OS 9 disk utility was fussy about drives.

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Try Silverlining Updater v6.4.9<br />
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<a href="http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/LaCieUpdater_649.sit" rel="ugc">http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/LaCieUpdater_649.sit</a><br />
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Hope it help<br />
Mak
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Try Silverlining Updater v6.4.9

http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/LaCieUpdater_649.sit [http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/LaCieUpdater_649.sit]

Hope it help
Mak

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If it not work, i will need the full make and # of the disk...<br />
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simpler, open the mac and unplus the disk... the # in on the top<br />
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If it not work, i will need the full make and # of the disk...

simpler, open the mac and unplus the disk... the # in on the top



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I bought a G3 beige from a deadbeat e-bay seller and end up with more problems than I bargained for. &nbsp; At this point, all I want to do is initialize the hard drive and start from scratch. &nbsp;However, I'm unable to do so with OS 9 or OS 9.2 CD utility. &nbsp;I booted from the CD, in case you're wondering. &nbsp;But I get the same message all the time. It cannot initialize a non Apple hard drive. &nbsp;What should I do? 
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I bought a G3 beige from a deadbeat e-bay seller and end up with more problems than I bargained for.   At this point, all I want to do is initialize the hard drive and start from scratch.  However, I'm unable to do so with OS 9 or OS 9.2 CD utility.  I booted from the CD, in case you're wondering.  But I get the same message all the time. It cannot initialize a non Apple hard drive.  What should I do? 

OS 9 utility cd won't initialize IBM hard drive on G3

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