[G4] WD HD

[Michael L. Brown]

Jim, I had a similar problem with a 120 Gig Western Digital HD in an 
ADS Firewire/USB2 enclosure. Messing around in OS 10.2.6 trying to 
partition the drive, I managed to "lose" all but 32 Gigs of disk 
space. I went through all the shenanigans below, but finally pulled 
the drive out of the enclosure and connected it up inside my G4 
Sawtooth as a slave drive and reformatted it with Hard Disk Tool Kit 
3.5 in OS 9.2.1. Magically the drive popped back up to the 117 odd 
Gigs that it originally had. I then put everything back the way it 
was and backed up all my drives (two SCSI partitions and one IDE) to 
the Firewire external using Retrospect Express 5.
Can you boot your G4 933 in OS 9. If so, the above route is the way to go.

Mike

>From: Jim Reamer <jna1322 at mac.com>
>Date: Sat May 10, 2003  3:44:20  PM US/Eastern
>To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: Re: [G4] WD HD
>
>Brian,
>    Thanks for the reply.
>    While I do get the drive to show up on Apple Profiler, it does 
>not show up on Disk Utility, greyed out or otherwise.
>
>    Well, I just tried again to no avail so I unplugged and 
>replugged. Two of my three partitions mounted. The third was 
>described as "unknown" and a message said it would not mount. This 
>is the one I had my main drive backed up on using CCC. Then I 
>rechecked Disk Utility and now all three are there with "Backup" 
>(unknown) greyed out. So I used DiskFirst Aid to repair the drive 
>(partition).  The phrase "Keys out of order" is the first sign of 
>problem, followed by "Rebuilding Catalog B-tree". It's been going 
>for 5 minutes with no sign of progress so we'll see.
>    After 40 min. I stopped it.......Well, after some screwing around 
>I  verified and repaired the partition.  It still wouldn't mount so 
>I went to disc utility to follow your advice; highlight and mount 
>from options.The color wheel came up when I clicked on the 
>partition. It's still spinning. I can't even force quit.
>    So whenever I try to work on the drive using Disk Utility the 
>program locks up. I can still use the computer for certain jobs but 
>the drive and Disk Utility is locked up.
>    So even if I do get the drive to show up on Disk Utility, I still 
>can't use it.
>    Any more thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>    Jim
>
>On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 05:23  PM, Brian Conner wrote:
>
>>Jim:
>>
>>I'll leave the CCC questions for others who have used it before. As to your
>>FW drive not showing on your desktop, usually if you will open Disk Utility
>>(I leave an alias on my desktop) you will see the drive grayed out. Click on
>>it to select it and choose Mount from the Options menu.
>>
>>Most of the time, this will do the trick.
>>
>>
>>Brian Conner
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
>>Behalf Of Kurt Appling
>>Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 11:22 AM
>>To: Power Macintosh G4 List
>>Subject: Re: [G4] WD HD
>>
>>
>>RE; I too am open to suggestions, your description is quite normal to
>>what I have had.although some difference to note,I am useing external
>>firewire boxes that have seperate on off switches,also if I try useing
>>either external drive box alone I get your problems as well, however if
>>I daisy chain the two, then all is well they both show up fine,but as
>>for system backup,I have CCC my main drive to each of the two back up
>>drives,some things work others do not,I seem to loose a large amount of
>>data somewhere,the Icons for it are presant,but all the info is
>>gone,its just like the folders are empty. so it may be something to do
>>with termination,but I really dont know much. best wishes
>>
>>
>>On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Jim Reamer wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>	I recently bought a WD 120gig firewire external hard drive. It seems
>>>to be working fine, I have used CCC to backup the hard drive of my G4
>>>933 to the WD. However, the external doesn't show up on my desktop. If
>>>I unplug it and plug it back in, then it will show. Otherwise nothing.
>>>Also, it seems to run non-stop. Is that right? Any suggestions?

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