Rick -
This is a shot in the dark with the disclaimer that I'm a Windows guy,
not a Mac guy. But...Knoppix has saved my bacon several times when a
hard drive wasn't recognized by computer's OS. I was able to mount the
defective drive and copy the data to a new drive with no problems. It
may or may not work for you, but it might be worth a try. It boots and
runs completely off a CD, DVD or USB drive - and it's free. It does
require either an Intel or AMD CPU. Here's a description from the
Knoppix web site.
"KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD, DVD or USB flash drives,
consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux
<http://www.knopper.net/linux/> software, automatic hardware detection,
and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices
and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system
for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a
platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to
install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD
can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 9GB on
the DVD "Maxi" edition)."
More information here...
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-info/index-en.html
-p
On 4/1/2018 3:18 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
So, I borrowed a toaster, took the 3.5” drive out of its case (Seagate 2TB in
an OWC case), and put in in the toaster.
It spins up, makes clicking sounds for a bit, but still doesn’t show up on the
desktop =or= in Disk Utility.
So, I think it’s a partition table problem. :-(
Jan, I have scarcely used Terminal at all (only to launch FSCK when the OS
wouldn’t launch, and a couple of other things); so I would need a detailed
tutorial.
Rick
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