http://www.techontour.com/os-servers/2008/07/28/installing-os-x-without-a-functioning-optical-drive/ Your resource for Technology News, Reviews and Tutorials Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:24:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.techontour.com/os-servers/2008/07/28/installing-os-x-without-a-functioning-optical-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-13492 Thomas Vacchino Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:33:08 +0000 http://www.techontour.com/?p=225#comment-13492 I have an intel G5 Imac that has a faulty Optical Drive. I have set up target disk mode with my old g4 Titanium in hopes of reinstalling TIGER. Problem I run into is when the G5 Disk shows up it has a exclamation mark on it and states "Cannot install OSX on this volume. OSX cannot start up from this volume"............ I'm hesitant to pursue this any further as it seems a reformat MAY let me go the install which is fine as that was the intention. But where as teh G5 Optical Drive is gone I'm pretty much screwed if I reformat and still get that Exclamation mark. I have an intel G5 Imac that has a faulty Optical Drive. I have set up target disk mode with my old g4 Titanium in hopes of reinstalling TIGER. Problem I run into is when the G5 Disk shows up it has a exclamation mark on it and states “Cannot install OSX on this volume. OSX cannot start up from this volume”………… I’m hesitant to pursue this any further as it seems a reformat MAY let me go the install which is fine as that was the intention. But where as teh G5 Optical Drive is gone I’m pretty much screwed if I reformat and still get that Exclamation mark.

]]>