EXCELSIOR E2 hard drive missing

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EXCELSIOR E2 hard drive missing

I came home to my mac pro being frozen. I had to to a hard restart and it could only my my HD which was a Leopard OS in on of my 4 drive bays. I have an EXCELSIOR E2 hard drive 540GB, and when I went to disk utility, the computer can't see the drive. I have tried a few tricks, but can't get the older OS to boot into a safe mode. Anyway I don't know if the E2 is fried or can I see it to reformat it.

Any suggestions for startup diagnostics?

2009 Mac Pro 2.26GHz, EXCELSIOR E2 hard drive, Yosemite, 7200 rpm HDs in other bays.

Posted on Jan 16, 2019 6:02 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 16, 2019 6:13 PM in response to nelsonmay

Disk Utility is the one program that lives in both the world of physical drives and the world of logical Volumes.

A drive that will not tell Disk Utility is make&model (hardware-name) and a reasonable, non-Zero size, has died. It can not be repaired, erased, or used in its current condition.

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lllaass

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Jan 17, 2019 1:19 AM in response to nelsonmay

I had a EXCELSIOR E2 too and it died with the same symptoms. I could revive it on a PC. However, eventhoug it worked again in my 2009 MP it soon died again.

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EXCELSIOR E2 hard drive missing

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