Powerbook G4 does not recognize hard drive

yahs, on Saturday September 6, 2008 06:17:31 PM

Hello,

My Powerbook G4 would freeze about 30 seconds after start up, so i tried to repair with disk utility and it did not help the problem. I eventually gave up and decided to wipe the hard drive and do a reinstall of the system. It booted up and everything looked fine, and then i put the second instillation disk in and the amount of time to install kept rising, so i left the computer and when i cam back to it i saw the power cord had become disconnected, and the whole system froze. I shut it down holding the power button, and now it will no longer boot up, and it gets stuck on the gray screen with the apple, and when i boot from instillation disk, it is not recognizing my hard drive, and when i go to disk utility, i get the rainbow spinning wheel of death and it continues to search to no avail. Can someone please help me???

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