Second hard disc inaccessible - read only?
Andy Evans
that I have no idea how to access hard disc 2. when I try and copy
files it says disc cannot be modified. I think the disc's empty. How
do I proceed with getting this disc drive working?
spookily at one point I managed to transfer a single file to it but
since then nothing. I did also switch from Tiger to Leopard.
My main hard disc is only 76Gb while the second is 279Gb. Both Maxtor.
Would make sense to use the bigger drive as the main drive, but have
no idea how to do that
that's all I know!
Help!
andy
Fred McKenzie
<4cb5f818-3d0d-44be...@j14g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Andy Evans <performan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got a PowerMac G5 off ebay a while ago and it all works OK except
> that I have no idea how to access hard disc 2. when I try and copy
> files it says disc cannot be modified. I think the disc's empty. How
> do I proceed with getting this disc drive working?
Andy-
I've read a similar complaint that was the result of adding a
Windows-formatted HD to a Mac. Apparently one such format can be read
by a Mac, but the Mac can't write to it.
As I recall, the solution was to re-initialize or re-partition the drive
using Disk Utility. The Mac OS Extended (journaled) format might be a
good choice.
Fred
Jaimie Vandenbergh
Repartition and reformat the big drive using Disk Utility, that should
get it back into service. If it doesn't, then it has likely succumbed
to Standard Maxtor Failure Syndrome - at least until some time after
their purchase by Seagate, they've been rather naff drives for years.
If it does work okay after, then still inside Disk Utility you can
"restore" the current boot disk onto the big disk (or onto a partition
on the big disk, if you like). Once that completes you can go to
System Preferences/Startup Disk and choose to boot from the new one.
This is made a lot easier if you rename one of the disks after the
"restore" operation!
Other software (Carbon Copy Cloner is my normal tool) will be faster
than Disk Utility at doing the copy.
Cheers - Jaimie
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cynicism by those who have not got it." - G B Shaw
Space Monkey
> I've read a similar complaint that was the result of adding a
> Windows-formatted HD to a Mac. Apparently one such format can be read
> by a Mac, but the Mac can't write to it.
>
> As I recall, the solution was to re-initialize or re-partition the drive
> using Disk Utility. The Mac OS Extended (journaled) format might be a
> good choice.
If it is windows formatted you should be able to write to it using
NTFS-3G which uses MacFUSE.
http://mac-free.com/download/NTFS-3G.html
Neil