Hi iMac folks,
I'm thinking this topic must have come up long ago,
wondering if there are any current clues / methods ?
Recently, my 2007 iMac wouldn't boot ...
the Seagate Barracuda 750GB was clicking ...
The disk seemed to be dead ...
I replaced the hard disk with a new, larger WD disk.
When I boot off DVD, the iMac won't recognise this disk -
diskutil shows the name, but says it is 0 bytes and
won't allow format (greyed out).
The disk is a faster SATA III disk, so I tried jumpers, to slow
it down to SATA II - 3GB/sec (so the limited documentation said).
I bought a USB dock, mounted the new WD drive in that,
booted from DVD, but the iMac wouldn't see the disk at all.
Any ideas where to go from here ?
Do I have to try to buy the same / similar
Seagate Barracuda hard disk (which one) ?
Or, is there something else I can try ?
(I'd like to try format the new disk, but my laptop's usb ports
don't work any more - only recognise a backup disk ... sigh)
Any clues welcome :-)
Regards Geoff U in Australia
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