On Apr 2, 2009, at 5:41 AM, mythmaker18 wrote:
> > 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. If the drives aren't visible to these utilities, generally they're dead, deceased, passed on, pinin' for the fjords, EX-Drives. What I don't understand is how the sequence of events you've mentioned 'killed' them in the first place. I'm thinking something in your environment, static weird voltages, bending IDE pins, etc have physically damaged them. Get one of these <http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020-OTB&cpc=SCH > and stop tearing into systems to do this sort of thing. With this you can boot from a functioning Mac and work on these drives without the issues of master/slave/etc, bootable or not. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
