Hi Rick, On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 16:18:39 -0400 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.
OK, good >It spins up, makes clicking sounds for a bit, but still doesn't show up on the >desktop =or= in Disk Utility. Hmm, that does not sound good. It should make some 'seeking' noise perhaps (and the LED, if any may blink for a while) but it should not make real 'click' sounds. Clicks are usually caused by the drive-firmware resetting, causing the head-assembly to return to a start-poistion. It may do that when it can't read anything from the platters ... >So, I think it's a partition table problem. :-( No, partition tables are about CONTENTS, even a virgin disk, with nothing on it, would still appear in Disk-utility (where you would then 'initialize' it, and partition/format) >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. No problem when you need it, but if Disk-Utility does not see it, neither will DFSee ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com Flickr : jvw_pentax -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
