Drive appears in System Profiler but not on the desktop?
Was using LaCie Porsche as a back up drive as a general precaution
and as computer hard drive was starting to fail. Installed new
computer hard drive. I shut down the computer, turned off the LaCie
external drive and then unplugged the firewire cable. I then
installed new hard drive in the computer and tried to start up on the
operating system that I had installed on the LaCie drive as I was
using the external drive for my main drive. A screen came up with a
icon of a file with a question mark in the center of the file icon. I
allowed this condition to exist for five minutes or so and then
installed a new OS 10.4.11 from my computer disk and the new system
loaded and I was able to start the computer. Checked the System
Profiler and found this on the profiler:
FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
LaCie Hard Drive FireWire+:
Manufacturer: LaCie Group SA
Model: 0x1
GUID: 0xD04B7102061956
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
LaCie Hard Drive FireWire+ Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x102
Sub-units:
LaCie Hard Drive FireWire+ SBP-LUN:
Macintosh:
Manufacturer: Apple Computer, Inc.
Model: 0xA
GUID: 0x393FFFE6CB186
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
Macintosh Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x1
Unit Spec ID: 0x5E
Macintosh Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x2
Unit Spec ID: 0x5E
The LaCie drive does not appear on the desktop or the Disk Utility.
Please help as I have the work of years loaded on the LaCie back up
drive.
Thank you so much.
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