Hi Jonathan, Justin, and Others, There's a very good recent article at TidBITS about "How to Reformat a New External Hard Disk": http://db.tidbits.com/article/10307
The issue, as Jonathan mentions is that while you can copy files from other drives, even drives that were formatted for Windows, you can't migrate from drives that use a different format structure. What's even more confusing is that there are two Apple partitioning schemes depending on whether you use an Intel Mac (GUID partition table) or older PowerPC Mac (Apple partition table), and while you can boot an Intel Mac from a disk that was created with an Apple partition table, you can't perform system updates, etc. to such a disk. HTH Cheers, Esther On Sep 8, 2009, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > I have heard this can happen if the partition map on the external disk > is not Apple format. I have heard that when you first get an external > disk you should first "partition" it even if you are only going to use > one partition so that you are using Apple's prefered partition tables > and not another systems. > > I Heard on the Mac Jury list to select partition disk, then click on > options and then there should be a pop up menu to set the type of > partition mapping. > > I can't test this here right now. Perhaps Mark Taylor who just got a > new disk will be willing to test for us. > > On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Justin Kauflin wrote: > >> >> Hey everyone, I am stumped. I have just did a clean install of Snow >> Leopard. I tried running migration assistant, but the assistant >> doesn't seem to recognize the external hard drives I have plugged in. >> i was able to use them to make the back ups, and they show up in the >> side bar in the finder, but when I try to have it restore apps from >> the external drives, they don't show up. Anybody have any thoughts >> on >> why this is. Thanks so much for any feedback. >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
