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.
Disk Utility first does the write-zero pass to verify that the media is usable. This process also maps out any bad blocks. Once it's done, the drive is initialized - the partition map is written, a drive is placed in one of the partitions, and the mountable volumes are created.
If the Mac hung before Disk Utility completed the initialization step, then there's nothing for OS X to mount, or for Norton and DiskWarrior to find! You should be able to grab the drive with Disk Utility and redo the write & initialize.
Might be a good idea to redo the write-zeros... If that drive caused Disk Utility to hang, it might be dying...
- Dan.
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