At 8:14 AM -0700 5/30/02, lewiscounty wrote:
>
>Hi
>I bought an IBM 6.4 GB HDD to install in my 5300cs 64 MB ram running OS8.6.
>We opened it up, installed the drive, with no problem. The problem came when
>we tried to start up. Started off the OS 8.6 CD with no problem, but the
>drive set up couldn't find the drive. Finally gave up and put the old 500 MB
>drive back in. It works like it is supposed to. There is nothing wrong with
>the IBM, we put in in a Toshiba PC laptop and it formatted and is running
>like it is supposed to, just in the wrong machine. Any help would be
>appreciated.
Of course a hard drive which was formatted for a PeeCee wouldn't
work in a Mac. I'd try some third party software like FWB, Anubis, LaCie,
etc. to format the drive. You might have to format it in another Mac if it
won't format in the 5300.
Paul
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