External hard drive not showing on my desk tp

Joziburg

Is there specific external hard drives you buy for Macs or can you just buy any ol' one!? Been meaning to get one for my pro

nialler

Any ol' one will do, they normally come formatted as NTFS or FAT32 formatted I would open disk utility and reformat as MAC OS extended with a guid partition for intel macs.

Joziburg

nialler wrote: »

Any ol' one will do, they normally come formatted as NTFS or FAT32 formatted I would open disk utility and reformat as MAC OS extended with a guid partition for intel macs.

Cool thanks its just on most boxes I would see the windows symbol or PC details and thought there was some special Mac one that ya needed

A V A

nialler wrote: »

Ava I've had awful problems with Iomega drives, the drive itself wasn't the issue but the power supply, plug it in and it powers on but not supplying enough power to spin up the drives, I've replaced five supplies for the one drive which I use as an archive. Again I'll reiterate if it's a single drive/disk then an enclosure is your best bet and quickest method.

N

ok kool so do i just conect my hard drive to the enclosure and then to my computer and that makes power supply stronger ??is that how it works?

nialler

You either buy a new supply from Iomega themselves through the Support portal on their website or you buy a 3.5" USB enclosure (go to right-click on camden street or dawson street), remove the disk from the iomega and place it in the enclosure.

A V A

what do you mean by remove the disc from the iomega and place it in the enclosure how would you do that ?

nialler

You take a screwdriver to the Iomega remove the large silver thing (disk) and then put it in the enclosure, if there's two disks in the drive, leave it alone and buy a new power supply

A V A

so before i go ahead and buy one will i un srew the back of the hard drive??

A V A

iv opened it up and to be honest i dont know what im looking for

nialler

Post a pic and we'll instruct ya a 3.5" drive is just that 3.5" on one side, silver on top generally and about 20-30mm thick

It will look like this

http://zuosanli.en.made-in-china.com/product/GXvQUTyKgEVk/China-750GB-7200rpm-SATA-3-5-HDD-Hard-Drive-Hard-Disk-750-.html

Nemeses

This will help. Save you posting pictures up.

Caddy may not be the same but will be the same principle

http://www.instructables.com/id/Install-a-Hard-Drive-in-an-External-Enclosure/

44thservice

thanks guys

im having the same problem ,how much does an enclosure go for in a shop ?

nialler

anywhere between €10 and €20, probably more for USB 3

A V A

nialler can i pick one up in any electric store like pc world or anything

Nemeses

A V A wrote: »

nialler can i pick one up in any electric store like pc world or anything

Maplins do one for about 20 euro I think

nialler

http://www.dabs.ie/category/components-and-storage,hard-drives,external-hard-drive-enclosures/11270

A V A

what difference between a 2.5 and 3.5 ??

nialler

About an inch







Sorry couldn't resist

A V A

hahahha i shoulda seen that one


i thought it could have been something to do with the system or something could mine not be a 2.5 inch cause its thin

nialler

Is your external like this?



If so it's more than likely a 2.5" drive.

Does it look like this also


If so then it's deffo a 2.5" caddy you need, make sure it's SATA as I doubt you'd get and IDE now days.

A V A

so i need a 2.5" instead of a 3.5" : )

nialler

If it looks like the above then yeah

ZENER

AVA where are you based ?

Ken

A V A

im out in blanchardstown

ZENER

If you're not confident about doing the transfer to the new enclosure yourself I can help you out if you like ? I live in Donabate but could meet you in the Blanchardstown Center and try to help. Let me know if that's any use to you ?

Ken

A V A

ZENER wrote: »

If you're not confident about doing the transfer to the new enclosure yourself I can help you out if you like ? I live in Donabate but could meet you in the Blanchardstown Center and try to help. Let me know if that's any use to you ?

Ken

i really appreciate that

would it be as straight forward as this? http://www.instructables.com/id/Install-a-Hard-Drive-in-an-External-Enclosure/

ZENER

Yeah pretty much ! The only thing is you don't know if the drive is actually any good.

If it turns out it is faulty you will have wasted money on the enclosure. That said there's nothing stopping you buying a new drive and putting it into the new enclosure if that turns out to be the case.

My plan was to connect it to a USB to SATA/IDE adaptor to check it's actually readable and then take it from there.

IF that guide doesn't work out for you the offer is still there.

Ken

A V A

ZENER wrote: »

Yeah pretty much ! The only thing is you don't know if the drive is actually any good.

If it turns out it is faulty you will have wasted money on the enclosure. That said there's nothing stopping you buying a new drive and putting it into the new enclosure if that turns out to be the case.

My plan was to connect it to a USB to SATA/IDE adaptor to check it's actually readable and then take it from there.

IF that guide doesn't work out for you the offer is still there.

Ken

cheers man

so if i get the enclosure is should be right? its just iv important music samples on the hard drive

ZENER

If the actual hard drive is good then putting it into the new enclosure should work just fine. You won't know until you try it but I have my suspicions the drive may be dead. Most 2.5" enclosures don't require an external PSU and work just fine from a USB port. If you're isn't spinning up from either Firewire OR USB then it doesn't sound good. Hopefully I'm wrong !

By the way, the guide you linked to is for an IDE 3.5" drive. Yours is most likely a 2.5" SATA drive but still pretty straight forward.

Ken

A V A

lads just got the enclosure 2.5" ,have it al hooked up but it still isnt showing up