The new OWC external HD enclosure arrived today, and I took the drive that had vanished from the desktop out of its old enclosure and put it into the new one, but it didn't do any good. The drive still doesn't show up on the desktop from inside its new enclosure, even though it spins up and goes clickety-clack for a few seconds while it's starting up, just like a healthy hard drive.
As an experiment, I put an old 500GB drive into the old enclosure, and it does show up on the desktop. Then I put the old 55G into the new enclosure that arrived today, and again it shows up on the desktop. Which means that the problem was not a defective enclosure, since all the enclosures work--it's a defective drive. With that established, what to do now, if anything? Bash the drive with a hammer, freeze it in the freezer--anything at all--to somehow make it show on the desktop, at least long enough to get the data off it? My copy of the newest Disk Warrior has not yet arrived in the mail. Any chance that when it does arrive, it might be able to find and repair this invisible drive? (And to answer your questions just above, Nick, yes, the Finder Prefs are set to show all drives on the desktop, and no Disk Utility cannot see the drive. Thanks for the suggestions). Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
