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Q: External Hard Drive Enclosure Problem

Hello. Recently (dont laugh) my Power Mac G4 just died. I was only using it basically as a juke box. Any way I just bought a external hard drive enclosure so that I can still access the file from it. I have done this in the past and it has work. For some reason now I get an error message say "The Disk You Inserted Was Not Readable By This Computer" I hit ignore when it asked because ive read that sometimes if you do it will pop up. Well Ive been waiting and nothing has popped up. Does anyone have any idea why its not reading?

 

 

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Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on May 29, 2014 5:49 PM

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  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua May 29, 2014 7:05 PM in response to audiojoker
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    May 29, 2014 7:05 PM in response to audiojoker

    Is it a SATA Disk or IDE/ATA? What size, & which exact enclosure?

     

    Does it show in Disk Utility?

  • by audiojoker,

    audiojoker audiojoker May 29, 2014 7:13 PM in response to BDAqua
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    May 29, 2014 7:13 PM in response to BDAqua

    It is an IBM Deskstar IDE/ATA hard drive and my enclosure is a Sabrent 3.5 IDE Hard Drive Aluminum Enclosure.

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua May 29, 2014 9:55 PM in response to audiojoker
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    May 29, 2014 9:55 PM in response to audiojoker

    Hmmm, it may have been the cause of theG4's demise, or a victim of said demise, then again they were often called DeathStars.

     

    I think it is at the least severly corrupted, only options I see is an older version of DiskWarrior or SpeedTools Pro 3.7

  • by ZV137,

    ZV137 ZV137 Jun 1, 2014 12:16 PM in response to audiojoker
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    Jun 1, 2014 12:16 PM in response to audiojoker

    You could probably try checking it with Scannerz (http://scsc-online.com/Scannerz.html) but I suspect it's too late.

     

    Guy....that's really old technology. When I saw the terms "IBM Deskstar" and IDE/ATA in one line as a new post I almost fell off my chair.

     

    I am not knocking your system...I like old computers and it's cool you've been able to keep it running and useful this long, but that drive and setup have GOT to be in the vicinity of 10+ years old.

     

    In any case, all I can think of are these:

     

    1. NVRAM/PRAM resets becuase the unit may now not be recognized:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

     

    2. Possibly a PMU or SMC reset if applicable:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1939

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

     

    3. Connect the drive to a Mac system (you didn't say what type of Mac you're using to try and read this...is it Intel or PPC based?), open up Terminal.app and type the command "diskutil list" and see if the drive is recognized. If the drive doesn't show up at all, it, or it's enclosure are probably dead. If the drive shows up with only a device  ID (like disk2s3) and no format or file system information then the format of the drive is corrupt and the  system can't make sense of it. You could try what the other poster said with DiskWarrior to see if it can recover stuff...it may it may not.

     

    By the way...the drive is formatted in a format Apple can understand, right? This isn't some wierd NTFS or Windowz setup is it? Also keep in mind that the Intel Mac's use GUID and the PPC Mac's use the old Apple Partition Scheme.

     

    I hope this helps in some way. Good luck.