>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:19:28 -0700 >From: kimberly woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I recently p/u a couple ext. HD cases. >One particular case had a 200 MB.HD. >I connected it up to my G3 DT and it came up on my desktop. >When I opened it there wasn't any files/folders to be seen although this >200MB HD stated there was 40MB available. What happened to the other 160MB? >I believe the HD was formatted using DM? >How can I retrieve the files on this drive? A drive that small is quite old and probably formatted with an older formatting utility. One of the things that formatting utilities (e.g., Apple's "Drive Setup", FWB's "HDTK", Intech's "SpeedTools", "SoftRAID") do is to put a little computer program on a part of the hard drive which the user never sees. This program is accessed by the host computer (it's always in the same place, so the computer knows where to find it) and tells the host computer how to run the hard drive. This program is called the "driver". Most likely, you are using a version of the Mac OS which is too recent for the driver on your 200 MB drive. If you have a Mac available with an older OS you could attach it to that one, or boot your current machine from a CD or floppy with an older OS on it. However, depending on how old the driver on that disk is, you may have to go back to 7.5 or 7.1 to make it accessible. I would try 7.6 first though. It seems like most of the driver incompatibilities sprang up with 8.x. Jeff Walther -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
