[Ti] External Drive Won't Recognize

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

On 9 Jan 2007, at 07:44, Ron 'Hollywood' Parro wrote:

> 	I recently had my hard drive upgraded to a larger size and told  
> the people who did it to put the old drive in an external case so I  
> could wipe it and use it for a backup. There was nothing wrong with  
> it.
> 	I got a brand new external case with a FireWire cord and plugged  
> it in to my PB G4 and it recognized once but now it won't. I have  
> tried everything I know but my expertise is in old-school  Mac and  
> I can't think of anything else to try with OS X 10.3.9

Ron - what I would do first is

(1) restart in Safe Mode - holding down the Shift key during startup
(2) when start up is complete, plug in the FW disk to the PB

See if the disk is recognised by the Finder (appears on the desktop)


	Does Disk Utilities recognise the drive ?

	Do you have Disk Warrior or Drive Genius?

I might also start the PB with the system disc, and open disk utility  
from that menu, and see if it recognises the FW disk.

With answers on these attempts, we might be nearer to understanding  
what the problem is.

regards,  Trevor