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HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - Surfrider - 09-07-2011
I had a HD at home with a bunch of music that I thought I'd like to listen to at work.
I brought the HD in, 1 TB Fantom Drive Green Drive, hooked it up to a USB port, turned it on...NADA.
Shows up on the System Profiler, shows up in Disk Utitlty, although the title of it is greted out, the line that says 931.51 GB is solid though, just the line underneath, the "title" per say.
Never had this problem at home.
Oh yeah, this work computer is a MMD 867, 1.5 GB Ram, OSX 10.2.8.
What to do?
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - Chakravartin - 09-07-2011
Your drive was initialized on a modern Intel Mac, I assume.
The GUID partition scheme on the drive is not supported under 10.2.8.
Back up the drive and repartition the drive with the Disk Utility as one volume with the APM option set. After that it should mount on the old Mac at your office. Restore the files from your backup and Bob's Yer Uncle.
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - Surfrider - 09-07-2011
Yikes, so no downloading at home and bring the HD to work?
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - kj4btkljv - 09-07-2011
Surfrider wrote:
Yikes, so no downloading at home and bring the HD to work?
No, you should be able to do that just fine. The GUID scheme just won't be able to boot any recent Intel based Mac. For what you want to do, APM should work just fine.
Jeff
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - hal - 09-07-2011
the MMD doesn't have USB2 as I recall so transfers would be at about 1GB/hour
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - Rolando - 09-07-2011
hal wrote:
the MMD doesn't have USB2 as I recall so transfers would be at about 1GB/hour
Yeeouch! Reminds me of loading up my first Nano from my iMac G4 (USB1 only)!
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - Surfrider - 09-08-2011
I didn't want to transfer anything just to use the additional HD as a library for more iTunes, but since it won't show up on the desktop...
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - decay - 09-08-2011
you have to use 10.2.8 at work?
for the love of all that is Holy... WHY?
i think i'd rather use Windows XP or 7 than 10.2.8 all day long...
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - Chakravartin - 09-08-2011
decay wrote:
you have to use 10.2.8 at work?
for the love of all that is Holy... WHY?
i think i'd rather use Windows XP or 7 than 10.2.8 all day long...
10.2 is quite nice compared to XP.
It was the first very usable version of OS X and if you did a side-by-side with XP you'd almost certainly go with Jaguar.
Re: HD Doesn't Show Up On Desktop - Rolando - 09-08-2011
I hate to admit it, but X.2 was the version that caught up with XP.
X.3 Blew it away.