you'll have to reformat it and install the drivers, until that happens, norton and diskwarrior won't touch it, they only work on drives that mount, otherwise they are a waste of time. you might try just a basic reformat without zeroing it, it will be faster for one thing. as for why it stopped, it could be a random glitch, a power surge or sag, or there might actually be a problem with the drive. in any case, try the reformat and see if it will go. if that fails, try another formatting program. if that fails, format on a pc, move back to the mac and try again. some formatters are better than others in their ability to deal with drive problems. in any case, zeroing the old data should not have done anything bad, other than possibly strain the formatting utility, it absolutely should not damage the drive, only the old data.
James Stegall wrote: > > Dear experts. . . > > Here's my situation: > > I put a 6.4 gb hard drive in my beige G3/266 running OS 10.2.8 that I > pulled from a PC. The beige recognized the drive just fine. I opened Disk > Utility and formatted the drive, choosing "Zeroize" or write with zeros to > destroy all data, and left the computer alone to clean off the drive. > > Sometime during the format, Disk Utility hung. I had to restart the > machine, and after the restart the hard drive disappeared. I've tried > Norton Disk recover and Diskwarrior and neither programs see the drive to > do anything with it. ----------- -- --Funny thing, the "MSN Butterfly" looks awfully fat, too fat for a butterfly, more like a bee. I guess there is truth in advertising after all... -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
