[Cube] re: Getting my cube to "see" this hard drive.

[Mike Gilpin]

Carrie -
Stefan's got some good suggestions.  One thing you might do is when  
you boot the OS X DVD (from an external firewire DVD drive it sounds  
like?) go to the top menu bar and select Disk Utility.  Then see if  
Disk Utility can see the drive.  If the drive is not partitioned  
correctly the installer won't see it, but you can repartition it in  
Disk Utility.  Make sure you put on the Apple Partition, not the GUID  
(it's for Intel systems).

Mike Gilpin
mike at gilpinhome.net



On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Stefan wrote:

> Hello Carrie,
>
> (1) have you had a look onto the jumpers?
>
> If the harddisk is slave for example and the DVD too, you will have  
> problems.
>
> (2) Maybe the cube has a wrong firmware to boot with OS-X. Have look  
> onto Apple support site-
>
> These are the main possible reasons.
>
> Can you start the cube with an OS-X DVD via DVD-start?
> If not, that might be the firmware issue.
> If yes, that speaks for the HD-problem (jumper) - I would mean  
> that's might be the main reason.
>
> Of course the HD can be simply defectŠ?
> Try to start from an external or the internal DVD with OS-X or OS 9  
> and with the specific HD in an external FW-enclosure. Will it be  
> recognized then? The FW-externals are not specific with the jumpers  
> as far as I know.
>
>
> Good luck
> Stefan
>
>
>
>> Hello,
>> This is my first posting.  I purchased this cube off of ebay. I am  
>> trying to get this up & running but have hit a major snag. It just  
>> won't "see" the hard drive. It had everything deleted by the  
>> seller. The unit sees the external firewire disc drive & boots it  
>> with a OSX disc, but still doesn't find the HD to install it to,  
>> not sure if it sees it's own internal drive. I have I thought  
>> properly reformatted the hard drive useing another cube, but it  
>> still doesn't see it. My next options I think are reformatting a hd  
>> in another cube, swapping the disc drive from another cube, any  
>> thoughts out there? Much appreciated.  Kindest Regards,    Carrie  
>> in Chicago,IL
>
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