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iBook won't Boot up with OS X

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I just recently bought an G5 iMac and went to repair the hard disk on my old G3 ibook, and had to reformat the Hard Drive. I thought this would be real easy to fix. I used "Drive Genius" to do the dirty work, it repaired the drive and created a new partition. The problem is when I went to use my install disks I got with my new iMAC on my iBook it will not boot to the CD. So I have the Flashing ? File folder thing. I do not have a boot disk for the iBook. Is there a reason the new Tiger disk will not work with the iBook? Seems silly that it wouldn't. What can I do? Eric Mullins

Name: bobw
Date: March 25, 2006 at 11:28:21 Pacific

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The discs that ship with new machines don't work on other models. Apple ships machines with OS discs that are machine specific.

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Name: jel
Date: April 10, 2006 at 17:12:21 Pacific

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that is correct what u r trying to do is against the law jel

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