OS X installation

Bizzare problem. I recently tried to install Jaguar on a mac G4 1.0 dual system. It had arrived from the factory like all G4s in recent years with a dual boot system of 9 and X. However the people using it had never tried to boot into X and were happy with 10.

What I found out is that the install wouldn't work and that the computer had arrived from the factory with an Apple extended partition formatting of the hard drives. Well I tried to reformat the drive to NSF. No luck. The computer only recognizes the drive as having 49 megs when you format it in NSF and this is a 70 gig drive!

So figuring the drive is bad I poped in a spare 40 gig drive that I had laying around and formatted it in NSF... NO LUCK! This drive which I know is good registered as only having 49 megs when formatted! And the computer doesn't indicate any unformatted partition space. As far as it cares this is a 49 meg drive when formatted in NSF.

Does anyone have a clue as to what is wrong here? Evidently at apple they were only able to use an extended partition format and shipped it that way to my company and we have never done any alterations to the setup until now. Unfortunately this was an early model dual system and the warranty is over from nearly 2 years ago.

Thanks!

Brian Peterson
River City Productions