I've had three used hard drives fail recently when I tried to install new systems on them to put in old macs.
The first two 'went South' after I put 10.4 on them while inside a blue and white G3 (before I knew that B&W G3s can actually damage the systems on hard drives if they're not done in a certain way). The third went bad after I accidentally skipped a security update or two and tried to install a later one on the iMac G3 that drive was in. I've tried hooking up all three in other macs, as master, slave and cable select, tried booting with Disk Warrior, TechTool Pro, Disk Utility via the 10.4 Install DVD, etc. but none of these applications can "see" the drives to do anything with them. Is there some kind of utility out there that might be able to see (and mount) these drives so I can reformat? I know back in the days of SCSI, there were all kinds of great utilities to mount troublesome disks (like FWB Toolkit and Mt. Everything) so that they could be reformatted. Is there anything comparable that's just as effective in ATA/EIDE (and, preferably, that's either shareware or freeware)? I hate to just simply write-off these three drives, but I don't know anything else to try! Andy McKinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
