Posts: 1,907
Threads: 284
Joined: Jan 2022
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?
Posts: 9,997
Threads: 464
Joined: Oct 2021
Reputation:
0
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.
Posts: 1,907
Threads: 284
Joined: Jan 2022
Yikes, so no downloading at home and bring the HD to work?
Posts: 5,165
Threads: 147
Joined: Dec 2016
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
Posts: 37,915
Threads: 4,149
Joined: May 2025
Reputation:
0
the MMD doesn't have USB2 as I recall so transfers would be at about 1GB/hour
Posts: 1,907
Threads: 284
Joined: Jan 2022
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...
Posts: 23,742
Threads: 1,348
Joined: May 2025
Reputation:
0
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...
Posts: 13,066
Threads: 910
Joined: May 2025
Reputation:
0
I hate to admit it, but X.2 was the version that caught up with XP.
X.3 Blew it away.
