At 4:07 PM -0700 7/12/2012, Don Wakefield wrote:
After a power outage, my external 500 gig Firewire Verbatim HD,
(which functioned as my boot drive for my eMac,) refused to power
on. I took the unit to MacHQ (a nearby Mac Repair Business) and they
pulled the Samsung drive out of the Verbatim enclosure and installed
it into a Macally enclosure. When I connected it to my network, the
two 250 gig partitions appeared on the desktop as expected. 1 icon
of my OS and 1 icon of the generic Firewire HD graphic. Since I
wanted that unit to function again as my startup disk, I selected it
in the startup menu. Everything seemed correct. Unfortunately, the
unit would not start the Mac. It clearly tried to be the startup
disk, but at some point in the procedure the Mac reverts to its
internal smaller, older System on the internal HD.
What did Disk Utility say when you ran a Repair Disk on the drive?
"When I connected it to my network"... huh? Explain please. Exactly
how have you connected the drive to your Mac?
- Dan.
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