Hitachi 500gb

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Eloisa Stawasz

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Aug 3, 2024, 6:02:13 PM8/3/24

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I just installed a new Hitachi 500gb that replaced my old Hitachi 120gb. My hard drive was replaced about 1 1/2 years ago at the apple store. Now that it has died i was told to order a new hard drive less than 1 terribite (i know it's misspelled). I replaced it and pressed alt at boot and the disc appeared and I clicked it...selected ENGLISH and then went next...was ask to select where do i want this to info installed but it had nothing for me to select. it's obvious it's not recognizing my new hard drive. I can't go any further. Then when I select installer from the menu and select start up disc it shows an X on my MAC OX S installation disc 1????? Could this be because when they gave me a new hard drive they used their discs...I don't know... I really don't wanna go BACK to the MAC store...Has anyone had this issue?????

When you start the install process, after you choose the language, on the menu bar, under utilities, is Disk Utility. You have to partition and inititalize the drive before proceeding, or, as you've found out, the system won't recognize the drive.

In Disk Utility, click the hard drive on the left, click the partition tab, tell it how many partitions you want and size (most use one partition for the entire disk). Give it a name and format Mac OS extended (journaled). Make sure it's GUID format under options. Click apply, exit Disk Utility and continue with the installation.

i have exactly the same problem, i am trying to change the hard drive capacity number from 3.6TB to 500GB, but although the number can be changed the TB seems to be fixed. does anyone have any idea what i am doing wrong please?

Before I updated from Win 8 to Win 10 my Hitachi Touro 500gb portable hard drive worked fine to make backup's. Now it won't. It shows in Device Manager and in Backup and Support(windows 7) in Control Panel but in the latter there is a red cross against it and 'Back up now' is greyed out. It will not work at all. Is there any way I can get it to work rather than buy a new one?

Hi Visruth-been a while since you were kind enough to help me with my portable drive that wouldn't work after I downloaded Windows 10. I didn't have any joy at the time but in the latest edition of Computeractive Issue 475 11-24 May on page 70 there are instructions that worked for me.