Thanks Jonathan, maybe I didn’t plug the ribbon into the device correctly, I’ll check.
John > On Aug 7, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Your fusion drive is obviously not showing up to the system. I would take it > apart and make sure the drive is connected. > > Failing that, I would see if the drive shows up to another system. (Put it in > an external enclosure or use a bare drive cable made for that purpose.) > > If it does, format it there and then see if it doesn’t show up on the MBP. > > Jonathan > > >> On Aug 7, 2016, at 1:01 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: John Robinson <[email protected]> >> Subject: [MacGroup] I need help on this one >> Date: August 7, 2016 at 1:01:42 PM EDT >> To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers >> <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers >> <[email protected]> >> >> >> My grandson’s Macbook Pro’s hard drive bit the dust. >> >> He looked on Amazon, ordered a Fusion type drive, part hard disk, part Solid >> State. >> >> I installed, and on booting I get a dialogue asking for the network, then a >> file seems to be loading. >> >> <IMG_3397.jpeg> >> >> Once loaded and I go to Disk Utilities to format the drive I have this: Two >> system, Disk o and Mac OS X Base System. Clicking on the disk 0 is says it’s >> Journaled but grayed out, can’t add a name, can’t hit erase, all grayed. >> Clicking on the Max OS X Base system says it’s “extended”????? but again >> can’t change anything as it’s grayed. >> >> <IMG_3395.jpeg> >> >> >> <IMG_3400.jpeg> >> >> >> >> Notice the capacity of the drive is 1.19 gb, and 1.15 gb are used with >> 35,620 files, with only 38.3 mb remaining…!!!! >> >> How in the world do I format this thing? I have installed MANY drives, but >> they were were all either disk or solid state…this is the first combination >> drive and I am at a loss how to get this to work, it’s a Seagate and the >> demo on Amazon was for a Windows machine…but can’t we format a Windows drive >> for Mac? >> >> Thanks a bunch… >> >> John >> >> >> >> >> >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > [email protected] > > Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group > Next Meeting: 8/23/16 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
