A couple of questions about hard drives and synching. I have a dozen
IDE hard drives of assorted sizes and makes from 4GB up to 250GB that
maybe one or two are definitely bricks. When I hook them up in an
external enclosure some show up in Disk utility (only the first line,
the second does not show on the left hand side in the listing of
drives) and they don't mount. I can't run first aid and it looks like
I can reinitialize some of them but not others. Before I try the
reinitialize option I would like to see what is on them first. Drive
Genius and Tech Tool do not see them either, only Disk Utility does so
far. The others mount and run fine. I have tried different USB and
firewire ports and cables, a different enclosure as well with no
improvement.
Looking around the web I am reading that since I am using (a PowerMac
G5 with) Leopard 10.5.8, that may be causing the problem. It has been
suggested that I check them while running Tiger or even Panther.
Before I install Panther or Tiger on a drive and run it in the G5 I
was hoping someone had some experience with this issue and could
offer some guidance. Thank you.
m ray
bluellama...@embarqmail.com
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