on 8/8/04 12:56 PM, Ron at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Saturday, August 7, 2004, at 09:18 PM, denimpair wrote: > >> on 8/7/04 7:19 PM, denimpair at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> on 8/7/04 9:14 PM, lovek at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>>> We bought a second hand 20 gig Fujitsu Hard drive, formatted it for >>>>> Macintosh and loaded the operating system...then it just seemed to >>>>> go >>>>> dead...and we haven't been able to get the machine to recognize >>>>> there's a >>>>> hard drive there. I know the cables are good, as they are the same >>>>> we use >>>>> for our good smaller hard drive. Is there a program for the Mac >>>>> that will >>>>> bring it back to life?? Has anyone had this happen...or does anyone >>>>> have any >>>>> suggestions...please!! - Peg >>>> >>>> make a search for Mt.Everything - (mount everything)that is a control >>>> panel that can start disks that are accidently put in off position. >>>> L >>> >>> >>> Thank you. I found the program and am going to try it now. - Peg >>> >> It didn't work!! This is an iDE drive and I guess that only works on >> SCSI >> drives? >> > I don't think getting the drive mounted is your problem anyway. > > What you need is a Hard Disk utility like FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit, or > Tech Tool Pro, etc.... > > What shows up in the Apple Disk utility ? Does it show up at all in the > Drive set up ? > Can it be reformatted or initialized again ? If so, try it again using > the latest Apple OS you have available. > > If the jumper is set correctly and it's not showing up in the Apple > Drive Setup there is most likely an issue with the drive, return it if > you can. > > Ron > > > Thanks Ron, It doesn't even show up. I think it tries to start, but doesn't. I believe we might have gotten a lemon!!
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