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tryright clicking on my computer and selecting map network drive.(You'll get thesame results by right clicking on network neighborhood icon on your desktop andselecting map network drive.)This is the method many people use to assign adrive name (i.e.,letter) to a drive. How about asking you to format it before you can use it?Then you can recover datafrom hard drive withdata recovery software like Tenorshare DataRecovery.It can recover data after deeply scanning your hard drive to look forlost data.
Go to Start------>My Computer. You should see the Drive there or else your hard-drive is not showing up and there is a problem with it but try it first.
If you have another Macintosh that is working correctly, you can copy the contents of that hard-drive, including the Operating System onto an external hard drive.
To do this, install Carbon Copy Cloner on the working machine and plug in an external hard-drive. Then run Carbon copy cloner and make the source the computer's hard drive most likely named "Macintosh HD". Then choose to have your external hard drive be the drive where all of the data is copied. Then run the program and let it copy all of the files.
Once this is done, remove the external drive from the computer and plug it into your G3. Turn on your G3 while holding the Option (alt) key and then double click on the hard-drive image that is named whatever your external hard-drive is named.
Once your system boots up from the external hard drive, run Carbon Copy Cloner again and repeat the process again except have the source be your external drive and have the internal drive in your G3 be the disk that has all the data copied to it. Once this is done, turn off your computer, remove the external drive, and then boot up your computer again.
You will have an exact clone of the computer that you copied the data from and will just simply need to adjust the account settings as such as you see fit.
The external drive process can be skipped if you have a firewire cable. Simply connect the firewire cable to both computers and when you turn on your G3, hold the "T" key. This will turn your G3 into an external hard drive and you just have to carbon copy the files straight to your computer's internal hard drive.
If you do not have access to another computer mac computer, then you will need to go to the Apple Store and see if the Genius Bar can install the default operating system that your computer came with.
If for some odd reason you have the contents of an Mac OS install disc copied onto a flash drive or external hard drive, you can boot from that and use it in place of a disc.
The adapter board is a common fault, I have had about 20 of these cases in the last year, and It has made me hate external hard drives. My advice, take the hard drive out, its easy enough, remove the top two rubber feet, take out the screws, pry the top open, gently lift out and take the screw out of the adapter board. Now get an external reader. I've just got a cheapo for $50 and it works great for me (http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/premium-dual-sata-hard-drive-docking-station/) but if you want to pay more for something more reliable, I can't blame you. Keep the area reasonably dust free and hard drives you're not using in zip lock bags and you shall have much less drama, trust me.
Does your Mac have a key in the upper right corner with a small upward facing arrow and a dash under it?
This is the eject key. You may have to hold it down for two seconds.
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The "human face" icon is an indication that your hard drive is not being recognized by your iMac G3 because the hard drive is not formatted to read the Mac OS 9 software.
What you need to do is initialize your hard drive so you can it can read the Mac OS 9.0.4 software.
Below, I have provided a link with simple steps to properly initialize (format) your 40GB hard drive
OS X 10.3 supports your machine... you may have problems if your hard drive is too small.... It looks like this OS will work with your G3 IF you have ample hard drive and memory..
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