Old iBook g4 ide drive won't show up on MacBook Pro

I found an old iBook g4 and removed the hard drive. I've connected it to an ide adapter but it wont show up. it does however show up in disk utility but says uninitialized. is there anyway I can access the files on this drive on Mojave or Catalina?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jul 9, 2020 4:26 PM

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QuickPost

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Jul 9, 2020 10:15 PM in response to Dan1712

Hello,

Can you recall if this Macintosh had macOS 9 or macOS 10.x installed?

Dan1712 Author

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Jul 9, 2020 10:35 PM in response to QuickPost

It was definitely 10. I think 10.3 panther

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