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PowerBook and external hard drive

  • 01-02-2007 12:18am
    #1
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭


    I bought a new HDD for my PowerBook - faster, at 5400rpm, and bigger, at 160GB. And Peat's had a USB 2 caddy in the sale, so I bought that to use with the old drive.

    When the new drive arrived, I put it in the caddy and plugged it in, but not only did it not appear on the desktop, it gave a continual series of short beeps and flashed its hard drive light.

    Has this happened to anyone? Whassup?


Comments

  • #2
    pa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭pa


    The drive probably needs to be formatted before it can be used. Open up the "Disk Utility" application and see if the drive appears there.


  • #3
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    No, it doesn't even appear in Disk Utility. I've ordered a dual FireWire/USB drive, and hope that'll solve the problem. If it doesn't, it's a dud disk.


  • #4
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭trout


    can you try the drive/caddy combo on a different machine ?

    it could well be a drive/caddy issue as opposed to drive/caddy and powerbook issue

    can you post more details on the drive & caddy ?


  • #5
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    luckat wrote:
    No, it doesn't even appear in Disk Utility. I've ordered a dual FireWire/USB drive, and hope that'll solve the problem. If it doesn't, it's a dud disk.

    The USB interface should show up in the About This Mac > More Info panel (System Profiler: MacHD/Applications/Utilities/System Profiler). Might help you pin down the problem ?!

    ZEN


  • #6
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    I've ordered a Firewire/USB2 combo drive caddy, with a power supply. Hopefully that'll do the trick.


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